For children like me, growing up in an utopian community, life was a bewildering chaos of freedom and indoctrination by Susanna Crossman is an Anglo-French fiction writer and essayist whose work has appeared in The Paris Review, 3:AM Magazine, Neue Rundschau and the MAI Journal, among others. She also works internationally with hospitals and organisations as a clinical arts therapist, consultant and lecturer. She is the author of the novel L’Île sombre, or ‘Dark Island’, (2021), and her work is included in Garden Among Fires: A Lockdown Anthology (2020), edited by Marina Benjamin. Aman’s black beard tickles my face. We’re lying on a dirty carpet, in a … Continue reading The utopian machine