Category: fiction

• I May Destroy You

  I May Destroy You A staggering 6 weeks ago, when lock down restrictions were beginning to ease, our TV screens and minds were illuminated by: ‘I May Destroy you’. I, myself, who fared badly from the pandemic, was starting to recover from a long tail case of Covid-19. This drama series was the primary broadcast […]

  Alison Little

  July 17, 2020

  Abortion, Adverse Lifestyle, Bi Sexual, Britishness, Casual Sex, Conflict, Consent, Covid-19, Female Icons, Feminism, Fertility, Fetish, fiction, Gender Roles, High School, Morality, Narcotics, Non-consensual sex, pandemic, Period, Rape and Sexual Violence, Rape culture, Relationships, Reynhard Sinaga, Same Sex Relationships, Sex, Sexual Freedom, Sexual Parteners, Social Roles, Uncategorized, Warped

• 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

• The Loss

  ‘Silhouette; burnt orange’ by Charlotte Hodes Photo: Joel Chester Fildes The Loss is a short fiction works written by Alison Little. It was produced in responce to ‘Silhouette: burnt orange’ by Charlotte Hodes which was exhibited as part of The Errant Muse exhibition held at the VG&M in Liverpool. The Loss Sunlight brandishes down on […]

  Alison Little

  March 27, 2020

  accidents, Dorset, Fertility, fiction, Flash Fiction, Golden Sands, Leisure time, Miscarriage, Museum, Sex, The Errant Muse, Uncategorized, VG&M, Victoria Museum & Gallery

• A Void

  A Void In this, I have agreed to what was termed ‘A life modelling process’ for an artist seeking volunteers for a project he is working on. I stand before him in my dressing gown, nude underneath and wondering what he wants me to do, he tells me: ‘Don’t worry, I have done this lots […]

  Alison Little

  January 24, 2020

  Abortion, Art, Casual Sex, Celebration, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Conceptual Art, Conflict, Consent, Decay, Degrading, Depression, Dildo, Disorder, Domesticity, Dust, End of Innocence, Ethical, Female Icons, Feminist Art, Fertility, fiction, Flash Fiction, Gender Roles, Hopital, Illegal Abortion, Impotency, Installation, KY Jelly, Latex, Library, Life Model, Liverpool, Liverpool Central Library, Menopause, Mental Health, Metropolis, Morality, Non-consensual sex, Photography, Rape and Sexual Violence, Relationships, Sculpture, Sex, Sexual Freedom, Sexual Parteners, Sexualization, Sinful, Social Roles, Suffrage Movement, Third wave feminism, Trauma, Uncategorized, Unpeel skin, Victim Blaming, Vulva, Waste Product, Women’s Right

• 1950’s Girls Annuals: the Homemaker

  Seventy years on from when the girls annual of the 1950’s were being read in the  pink bedrooms of the post-second world war generation we look back at there content. Where they looking to inspire the girls who would grow up to lead second-wave feminism through the seventies, or were they looking to indoctrinate the […]

  Alison Little

  November 8, 2019

  1950’s, Beauty, Bio-degrade, Domesticity, Eco warrior, Female Icons, Feminism, Feminist Art, Feminists don’t wear Pink, fiction, Flash Back, Flash Fiction, Freedom of speech, Gender Roles, House Wife, Learning, Morality, Recycle, Recycling, Second Wave Feminism, Seventies, Social Roles, Uncategorized, Women’s Right

• Sinister Smiles

  Sinister Smiles Folded over Strapped down Sectioned off Cajoled, centrally Dropped down from a disheveled Heaven Tossed out of Godliness Rejected from comfort provision for the afterlife No longer good enough, surplus to requirements Perhaps pushed out of a boot Uphill reversing, then shoveled out the back way Redundant of domestic interior requirements Rendering green space urban […]

  Alison Little

  November 1, 2019

  accidents, Art, Conceptual Art, death, Decay, Degrading, fiction, Flash Fiction, Installation, Liverpool, Narcotics, Poetry, re-coil, Uncategorized

• Bongo Bongo Bangs…

  James Bongo bangs on…..about many matters. The conscious Poet, humanitarian and ascending master performed at last weeks Fringe Festival Open Mic Night at Frederiks. He talks to us about poetry, life and beliefs. In choosing from a collection of over fifty poems to perform at the event last week his work reflects his varied beliefs. […]

  Alison Little

  May 3, 2019

  Adverse Lifestyle, Alcoholism, Consentual Sex, Control of the Masses, Croxteth, Dr Feelgoods, fiction, Freedom of speech, Humanitarian, Iron Fist, Ism, Leisure time, Liverpool, Local History, Morality, Non-Consentual Sex, Open Mic, Poetry, Religious Controlling Mechanism, Social unrest, Thatcher, The Gospel according to Thomas, True History, Uncategorized

• Stalking>Victim Blaming>Police

  Earlier this week the Police and their treatment of stalking cases hit the national news. This extract is from the fictional novel Casual Nexus in which we see the accumulation the pressures of the main character Sal being constantly stalked.   The art school was open to the public for the two weeks of the […]

  Alison Little

  April 12, 2019

  fiction, Police, Police Women, PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), Quentin Blake, Rape and Sexual Violence, Relationships, Stalker, Uncategorized, Victim Blaming, Violation, Women’s Right

• Hand-Held Destinies

  Wednesday evening saw the opening of; John Moores Painting Prize, the Rise of the Sixties in Liverpool, at the Exhibition Research Lab of John Moores University. The fresh white interior of the John Lennon Art and Design Building provided the exhibition venue, brought to life by an evening of the performance. Stimulating music, spoken word […]

  Alison Little

  March 29, 2019

  Albert Dock, Celebration, Celebrity Culture, Feminist Art, fiction, Flash Back, Flash Fiction, Leisure time, Liverpool, Local History, Morality, New Brighton, Seventies, Sex, Sexual Freedom, Sexual Parteners, Sexualization, Sexualization of Children, Social Roles, The Sixties, Uncategorized

• 24 Hour Playwrighting

  The 24 hour hour play is returning to Lark Lane as part of Liverpool Fringe Festival. At 10pm on Friday night, the Old Police station on Lark Lane is aligned with 6 writer, 6 producers and 24 actors. They are grouped together: 1 writer + 4 actors + 1 director We have creative micro clusters […]

  Alison Little

  March 22, 2019

  24 hour Play, fiction, Irene Stuart, Leisure time, Liverpool, Liverpool Fringe Festival, Mental Health, Mr Loverman, Non-Consentual Sex, Old Police Station, Play writing, Rape and Sexual Violence, Sleepless, Uncategorized