A heavy August day in London, 1989. The tube was crammed, breathless. He needed to change at Hammersmith and chose…
I did not need another laptop but the sign in the window said ‘reduced to clear – half price’ and…
We took the train from Moscow. A bitter night, we left the city in the dark of a sudden biting…
When you make a concrete slab, I call them flags, unless you are careful to lay the liner in the…
Recently, I’ve been reading a lot of old science fiction novels. You know the really ancient stuff from hundreds of…
Tom got the letter a week after his eighteenth birthday. Jury duty. He turned up the first Monday and was…
I bought the binoculars for $89.99 on Amazon. They arrived in two days. I took the day off from work…
A woman was whistling it to herself while I was at the shops earlier. Now I can’t get rid of…
She had begged me to go to the party with her. ‘It would mean a lot. Please don’t make me…
This week I have been working nights. In at ten, home at six when the world is waking up. It’s…