Nikki Durkin

Twenty minutes later, we were standing in front of two large gates. They were padlocked and chained together. Barbed wire…

A few months later, Zac's friend, Toto, came to town. Toto was a German guy with wild hair…

"This is an incredible view," I gushed. "And the landscape is so lush! It's a…

"Can I ask you a question?" I said. "Sure," Hamish replied. "Shoot." The year…

I vividly remember the day I broke out of the academic matrix, coming to the full realization that the whole…

And she wasn't wrong. Our society talks about all kinds of privilege — socioeconomic, racial, gender, sexuality. I never…

"I don't understand why Claire hates me," I whined to Jane. Suddenly I was seventeen years…

My attention returned to the present moment, standing in the hallway of the Computer History Museum. I noticed Paul Graham,…

Several years went by. I found myself standing in the hallway of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.…

I sat at the table next to my brother, Hamish. It was the school holidays in 2005. I was fourteen,…

And then the lights dimmed. I was back in boarding school again, standing outside the big walk-in closet that everyone…

"I know!" Peter replied. It was 2012. I was twenty-one years old, talking to a random guy I&…