The Second Swim

The Unwelcome Companion

In this piece, I’m going to write about an intrinsically private topic—something you would usually only know about if I confided in you as a friend.

Oct 20 • Iona Italia

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October 2025

Thoughts on a Friend's Suicide

In Memory of Bruce Chadwick, who left too soon

Published on The Second Swim • Oct 22, 2025

September 2025

Love on the High Range

Glimpses of a beautiful life

Sep 22, 2025 • Iona Italia

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Townsville, Queen of the Sea

An underrated piece of paradise

Sep 12, 2025 • Iona Italia

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August 2025

The Idiot King

On the annoying vagaries of desire

Aug 22, 2025 • Iona Italia

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The Make-Believe of a Beginning

Navroze Mubarak!

Aug 15, 2025 • Iona Italia

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The Days of the Dead

On the Parsi festival of Mukhtad, our deceased loved-ones are said to walk among us.

Aug 8, 2025 • Iona Italia

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On Laughter and Forgetting

The advantages of a poor memory

Aug 1, 2025 • Iona Italia

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July 2025

Dark Energy

On the forces that tear us apart

Jul 28, 2025 • Iona Italia

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Life in a Fascist State

Tales from my boarding-school days.

Jul 18, 2025 • Iona Italia

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Sex Ed

Tales from my life before sexual debut

Jul 11, 2025 • Iona Italia

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Adventures in Ecuador

Back in March 2012, while I was living in Buenos Aires, I took an amazing trip to Ecuador, with my friend Dale, who was then working as a travel writer.

Jul 5, 2025 • Iona Italia

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