Category: Conquering

• Missed: Mrs America?

  Wednesday night saw the TV series Mrs America hit our screen in the UK. The series dramatises, more than documents the path of second-wave feminism in the United States. The initial episode centres around Phyllis Schlafly, played by the Hollywood great: Cate Blanchette. Schlafly, a staunch anti-feminist who lead the fight against the Equal Rights…

  Alison Little

  July 10, 2020

  1950’s, Abortion, Beauty Pageanting, Conflict, Conquering, Consentual Sex, Degrading, Depression, Domesticity, Family, Female Icons, Feminism, fiction, Gloria Steinem, House Wife, Leg over, Morality, Mother, No Sex, Non-consensual sex, Phyllis Schlafly, Relationships, Religious Controlling Mechanism, Second Wave Feminism, Seventies, Sex, Sexual Freedom, Sexual Parteners, The Sixties, Uncategorized

• Mrs Trump

    Although Mrs Trump and other characters in the narrative are real, this is strictly a fiction works and the actions and events are not based on real life. Mrs Trump gazes over the silver-framed Wedding photo they have positioned on the intricacies of their mantelpiece. The happy day: a falsehood, like herself, a manufactured…

  Alison Little

  March 13, 2020

  Affair, Casual Sex, Conflict, Conquering, Male gaze, Mantle-piece, Self obsession, Self pity, Sex, Sexual Freedom, Sexual Parteners, Sexualization, Sinful, Social Roles, Trump, Uncategorized, WAG

• A Future

  A Future Head of Augustus Looms down Baby faced leader Acquisition of colonialism Castles stand proud Once battlements Survived invasions Safeguard our shores Across the beaches Horseback troops thrust galloping to battlement Faster and Faster Classic novels align Our past, our heritage The Empire, British supremacy Victories acclaimed, territory conquered Trains travel coastal bound Frontiers…

  Alison Little

  November 29, 2019

  Bataclan, Bio-degrade, Conquering, death, Decay, Flash Fiction, Home grown terrorism, Poetry, Recycle, Recycling, Renewal, Restoration, Revive, Roman, Roman Empire, Rubbish, Terror Attack, Uncategorized

• I must be Miss Liverpool!

  I must be Miss Liverpool! We are seated, lined up, eventually at the final of Miss Liverpool. The seats of the room arched around, judges desks empty for now. They have demobbed to a side room, making the final, ultimate, life-changing decision. I must be Miss Liverpool! It’s taken me four years to get here,…

  Alison Little

  May 24, 2019

  Alder Hey, Alter Ego, Barbie, Beauty, Beauty Pageanting, Celebrity Culture, Conflict, Conquering, Degrading, Delluded, Disorder, Domineering, End of Innocence, False, Female Icons, Flash Fiction, Grafton Rooms, West Derby Road, Light Night Liverpool, Liverpool, Miss Liverpool, re-coil, Reading, Self pity, Sick, Sinful, Uncategorized, WAG, Want to be WAG, Women’s Right

• The Liverpool Mountain

  Does the luminosity of the latest contemporary public art form in Liverpool turn you on or off? Ugo Rondinone, the Swiss-born, New York-based artist has gifted his work to the Royal Albert Dock in Liverpool. The multi-coloured stack of rocks finished off with a T section had been sited on the waterfront, nestled beside the…

  Alison Little

  November 16, 2018

  Art, Biennial, Celebration, City, Conceptual Art, Conquering, Dessert, Uncategorized

• Will you be my Bride, McBride

  ‘Will you be my Bride, McBride’ is an extract from the latest chapter being written from the novel ‘Casual Nexus’ from Alison Little: Will you be my bride, McBride Jack was around his best friends house, Huxley McBride, they have finished school for the day. It was early September and they had just started in…

  Alison Little

  October 26, 2018

  Atari, Celebrity Culture, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Conflict, Conquering, End of Innocence, Flash Fiction, Gender Roles, Learning, Leg over, Leisure time, Male gaze, Mood Swings, Narcotics, Packman, Rape and Sexual Violence, Sex, Sexual Parteners, Sexualization, Sinful, Social Roles, Uncategorized, Violation

• Augustus: Head

  Augustus: Head is a flash fiction works in response to the Meroe Head of Augustus which was exhibited at the Victoria Museum and Gallery in Liverpool earlier in the year. Augustus: Head He stands above us Looking down Piercing eyes Looking through us to a greater existence Baby-faced, framed with cropped curls Winged ears arch…

  Alison Little

  August 24, 2018

  Augustus, Captivity, Conquering, Degrading, Dessert, Domineering, Failing, Male gaze, Meroe Head of Augustus, One-Eyed Queen, Roman, Roman Empire, Uncategorized