A Report from the After Times

Laurie Penny
11 min readApr 11, 2021

Normal is never coming back. We’ve got to be gentle with each other.

Photo by David Boarder Giles.

This is a dispatch from another planet.

For millions of people, for the rest of this mad, sad year, the world will return in pieces. Instead of remembering lasts we will start counting firsts. The first day the kids went to school. The first time you went to a bar. The first time you went to a bar and it felt normal…

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Laurie Penny

Based on a true story. Author, journalist, screenwriter, social justice bard.