• Red Flag

    About four years later, reviewing the collateral damage, (i.e. bewildered family, and bored friends), it was observed that the affair had been destined for the rocks from the beginning. With perfect hindsight it was obvious that, even without the clarity of passing time, the male protagonist would not have had to be a detective inspector Read more

  • on fear

    something from the pastlying close to the surfacebelieve it or not ~ CLP 31/10/2021 Read more

  • Dog

    I used to get confused about where I was supposed to be living. Was I supposed to be living with the woman and the man, or the other woman and the other man? It was never resolved as far I was concerned. There seemed no rationale for the frequent and irregular shifts of location for Read more

  • on evolution

    cast of dinosaurhallowed nave filled with childrenchurch to museum ~ n.b. Good use of an otherwise underutilised public space. ~ CLP 30/10/2021 Read more

  • Café

    If you’re ever in that city I can recommend a reassuringly French restaurant below the station. It was the one he’d thought of first having left the bookshop with a collection of short stories by Maeve Kelly. An uncertain pause at a crossing to scan for traffic, led him to spot the art-deco whorls, carved Read more

  • on the wheel

    changes of colourcannot disguise realityworking a treadmill ~ CLP 29/10/2021 Read more