Little Throbs
ArchiveTopDiscussion
Being a person with highly specific needs, or even minor needs, can be exhausting. Not only for the people around you, who may have ‘ideas’ about what …
Ellena Savage
May 18
'Bowls'
Ellena Savage
May 9
In the nineteen nineties, when I was a child and had no autonomy over my food choices, it was very edgy for white, Anglo people my father’s age to say,…
Ellena Savage
Apr 29
Probably it is just a feeling of listlessness. A not uncommon pandemic feeling. I have not been bedridden, not anhedonic nor alcoholic nor anorectic; I…
Ellena Savage
Apr 22 1
Since I am taking a small break from writing this week (what a time! Just a few days off), I am sending you a lil essay about robes I put out on the Sc…
Ellena Savage
Apr 15
I have a friend, a poet—just an acquaintance, really, but one I feel lovingly towards—I knew only briefly, in real life, five years ago. My contact wit…
Ellena Savage
Apr 9
Don’t ask me why I chose My Dark Vanessa as my escapist novel to read this much-needed weekend of reduced work. In case you haven’t heard of it, My Dar…
Ellena Savage
Mar 30
[and Blueberries giveaway]
Ellena Savage
Mar 21
I wanted to do the work of becoming a famous author Famous for a book she is yet to write, not the one She is ashamed to have written and wants never t…
Ellena Savage
Mar 16
Each interhemispheric flight I take is worse than the last. The flights themselves are fine, if extraordinarily wasteful. They are luxury, even (the As…
Ellena Savage
Mar 1
One of my favourite real-life artists is a woman I used to live with and whom I love tenderly. Ruth! O’Leary! You can look her up. Ruth moved to the co…
Ellena Savage
Feb 18
The cats in the empty lot beside my apartment block are ‘in heat’. They howl and wail all day and night. Sometimes, in the middle of the night, I wake …
Ellena Savage
Feb 9
© 2020 Ellena Savage. See privacy and terms
Publish on Substack