by Karl McLeish | Nov 6, 2010 | Stories
Seven am, still a trifle pissed from the night before is not the best time to be swaying off the end of a sharp pitchfork in any stable! Let alone those at the end of the mall. “How’s your head Jones?” I asked though I didn’t care! You see I was just lining myself up...
by Starchild Kostyshyn | Oct 25, 2010 | Stories
What does “International Women’s Day” mean for each woman? What is the reason for having such a day? On a grand scale, it is an attempt to reach out to all women and men to understand what violence against women means. It is intolerable even in our First...
by Don Holmes | Oct 2, 2010 | Stories
The wood was darker than she imagined and the noises of the scurrying animals frightened her more than she would admit. It had seemed such a good idea to run away from home and escape the inevitable punishment that must surely have followed after spilling the contents...
by Sally Patricia Gardner | Sep 10, 2010 | Stories
His name was Alfred Hughes. There was a lot about him in the paper that week. They called him the Hastings Hero. He not only saved my life, but apparently he then ran straight into the hotel and dashed inside. If you look carefully at the helmet you can see where the...
by John Cox | Jul 21, 2010 | Stories
How am I still enthralled by this place? After how long? Since I broke the watch Noriko gave me, I can’t tell the hour of the day let alone the year. But its been at least twenty five monsoons from when I first started counting. Five since Ichiro died, an old man at...
by Jan Hedger | Jul 17, 2010 | Stories
I didn’t expect him to turn up with a monkey. Very cute though; the monkey, that is, not David. He said he had picked it up in Indonesia and out of all the animals he had filmed, he had found this one hard to resist. So, as Mij the otter, had become part of Gavin...
