Meg Lewis

I am an editor and writer living in London. My work has been published in Willesden Herald New Short Stories 10 and Notes Magazine. I received a special mention in the Spread the Word Life Writing Prize 2020, and have recently had an essay accepted by Moxy Magazine.

Summon Up an Old Friend

Look out of the window. Focus in on the droplets streaming across the glass. Focus back out on the road, the lampposts zipping past in blurred grey stripes. Summon up your old friend, the giant orang-utan, who swings from the T-bar of one lamppost to another, keeping up with the cars as they speed down the M25. Get bored with the orang-utan – you are too old for this now. Shuffle, look straight ahead. Change the radio station to Kiss FM, even though the music makes you feel uncomfortable.

Creative Nonfiction

Issue 39, July 2020

Meg Lewis

I am an editor and writer living in London. My work has been published in Willesden Herald New Short Stories 10 and Notes Magazine. I received a special mention in the Spread the Word Life Writing Prize 2020, and have recently had an essay accepted by Moxy Magazine.

Summon Up an Old Friend

Look out of the window. Focus in on the droplets streaming across the glass. Focus back out on the road, the lampposts zipping past in blurred grey stripes. Summon up your old friend, the giant orang-utan, who swings from the T-bar of one lamppost to another, keeping up with the cars as they speed down the M25. Get bored with the orang-utan – you are too old for this now. Shuffle, look straight ahead. Change the radio station to Kiss FM, even though the music makes you feel uncomfortable.

Creative Nonfiction

Issue 39, July 2020

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