Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Fifty Three
Helena sat down at the bedside, handed over more grapes, a small bag containing some of his things, razor, tooth brush, that sort of thing. He was smiling at her in a lop-sided way. “I [more…]
Literature
Biography
Trig Point 6633 – Who is Steve T?
Whilst recently hill-walking in the Brecon Beacons I came to the following Trig Point and decided it was an ideal place for a quick rest-stop. On closer inspection I discovered a number of memorial plaques [more…]
Arts
Fiction
War Crimes Part Twenty-Nine – Edge, The Skeletal Grasp From The Past
Day 4 Horace Cutler was as irritable as a hungry grizzly bear with haemorrhoids the following morning and he was in no mood for any self-pity from Edge. “Did you have breakfast this morning, son, [more…]
Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Fifty Two
“Sam, I want you to tell me exactly what happened in there, while I was in the office.” Alan had decided to wait, let them all get some rest, regain some perspective, himself especially, get [more…]
Fiction
Tilda and the Witches 4.4
ACT 4 SCENE 4 Outside the temple at Thurralibad. The Street is deserted. Enter TILDA, FELIX, ETTY, VULPECULA, JESSICA, KEVIN, Uraemian SOLDIERS and PIRATES.
Authoritarianism
What If Jesus Came Back Today?
Jesus has persuaded God the Father to give him a second chance to redeem Mankind and to postpone for now his official Second Coming. This one will resemble His first visit, incognito, not the official [more…]
Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Fifty One
They were walking back the five miles from the village where the new American girl was staying with an older married couple like Martha and Iltud, children no longer at home, who were paid by [more…]
Literature
War Crimes Part Twenty-Eight – Edge, Destruction of a Witness
Day Three It was a blustery day and driving rain rattled the windows of the Sennelager Courts Martial Centre. The weather seemed to match Edge’s mood perfectly, anxiety twisting like a nest of vipers in [more…]
Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Fifty
He was lost, could be walking in circles in this featureless desert forever, neither hot nor cold, no real sensations here other than the ones he felt in his mind, no perception of time at [more…]
Fiction
Tilda and the Witches 4.3
ACT 4 SCENE 3 Aboard the Pirate Ship. Night. Enter TILDA and ETTY in Sailors’ Garb, FELIX, VISCUS, KEVIN and PATRICK, with PIRATES. They speak in hushed Voices.
Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Forty Nine
Later that morning ‘old’ Ted left what was becoming part of his daily routine, another COBRA meeting. They were starting to get properly scared now, especially when he told them that the arson attacks were [more…]
Biography
The Wrong Way to Put Out a Fire
When I left the Royal Fleet Auxiliary in 2015 I joined a shipping company operating out of Barrow-in-Furness. It was a very small outfit which specialised in carrying nuclear cargo between Europe, the US and [more…]
Literature
War Crimes Part Twenty-Seven – Edge, Crime and Punishment
Edge was mooching around the military port at Akrotiri, waiting for the Malcom Club wagon to pitch up for some tea and a bun. He had been helping the RLC guys chisel the rust off [more…]
Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Forty Eight
It was bad, not inevitably terminal, but beyond her ability to fix properly. No trace of heart damage, but the bullets, as these modern horrible ones seem designed to do, had fragmented on hitting the [more…]
Arts
This Septic Eye – The Acceptance Speech
ER: “Philip, is he still here then, the Septic Eye fellow?” DoE: “I think so, thought he’d buggered off but he’s back like a bad penny. What does he bloody want now?” Thanks Maj and [more…]
Fiction
Tilda and the Witches 4.2
ACT 4 SCENE 2 Aboard the Pirate Ship. Enter TILDA, ETTY and KEVIN.
Fiction
The Unseen Path- Part Forty Seven
A few feet above them in a subsidiary attic specifically set aside for hideaways like him, Suleiman al-Libani heard the accented English-speaking voices. One sounded Antipodean, another unrecognisable. He had made it out of London [more…]