Journey To The End Of The Night
At a time when the world is upside down and it’s thought insane to ask why you’re...
Tag: fear
Night Boat To Tangier
Benjamin? Charlie says. He want a black-sand beach. He want to be talking bollocks. He want a...
The Night by Ray Bradbury
You are a child in a small town. You are, to be exact, eight years old, and it is growing late at...
The Sea, The Sea
‘Every persisting marriage is based on fear,’ said Peregrine. Fear is fundamental, you dig down in...
The Wall
Mornings on the Wall, dawn and dusk and night, were times for poetry. Skyconcretewaterwind....
Fire and Ice
Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with...
Break It Down
And once she lay over against me late in the night and she started talking, her breath in my ear,...
A House For Mr Biswas
Every night he bolted himself in his room. As soon as he was still he felt the stillness around...
Delta of Venus
Dear Collector: We hate you. Sex loses all its power and magic when it becomes explicit,...
The Second Bakery Attack
I’m still not sure I made the right choice when I told my wife about the bakery attack. But...
First They Killed My Father
One evening, three soldiers went to the family’s hut and told her parents they needed Davi...
The Grapes of Wrath
Beside them, little pot-bellied men in light suits and panama hats; clean, pink men with puzzled worried eyes, with restless eyes… In their lapels the insignia of lodges and service clubs, places where they can go and, by...
