We live for that tomorrow. That UK tomorrow being promised by talking heads on TV. End of June they say and we can be free. Or as Martin Luther King Jr. put it, “Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!” But we’re not holding our breath, with a mask or without one. Fear of open spaces is called, “Agoraphobia,” I imagine we’ll all suffer from an agoraphobia whack on the head, when we once again venture out into the great outdoors. The UK does not yet have the strictest lockdown. But we’re getting there. Our balcony is our little space to view the world going by. The trip to the supermarket is now our version of Marco Polo’s trip up the Silk Road to the Mystic East. The fear is of contagion, from strangers we would not give even a second glance,as we…
Captain Heinz Noonan, the “Bearded Holmes” of the Sandersonville Police Department, was contemplating the inequities of life with one hand full of a wine…
Black Sunday by Tola Rotimi Abraham is all about power. The power parents have over children – and what happens if they abdicate that power? The…
Have you ever come to a book with absolutely no expectations? I did not know anything about The Trouble with Goats and Sheep or…
A GUITAR GOD REACHED FORTY It isn’t like that at all. There is no OD in room 23 of a cheap motel. He got…
LEO: 3: 09 am 22nd August 2017 I opened my eyes and I came face to face with my evil doppelgänger, my heart raced…
C. Boyle: I’ve written to you on at least a half-dozen occasions, and was flattered when you actually wrote back in hand written notes…
Dear pole star, I dedicate this to you Because in my mind lies a question, why do you not twinkle like other stars do?…
“Get out of our way, weirdo!” they shouted, I felt like I was being crushed under a mountain, My heart pounded in my chest,…
In the morning of 23 September, Maria João, a 53-year-old employee of the Joanina Library in Coimbra, woke up at 6, an hour earlier…