Rabbit, Run
"Couldya fill it up with regular?" The man starts to pump it in and Rabbit gets out of the car and goes around to the back and asks, "How far am I from Brewer?" The farmer looks up with a look of curt distrust from listening to the gas gurgle. He lifts a finger. "Back...
Cockney Cashpoint
Just been to a brilliant cashpoint in Hackney that offers the all important translation into Cockney functionality...
The Year Of Dreaming Dangerously
In San Francisco on Sunday October 16, 2011, in an echo of the Occupy Wall Street movement, a man addressed the crowd with an invitation to participate as if it were a happening in the 1960s hippy style: "They are asking us what is our program. We have no program. We...
The Sisters Brothers
They had us cold, the barrels of their pistols leveled at our hearts. 'You are ready to leave Mayfield?' asked the largest trapper. 'We are leaving,' said Charlie. I was not sure how he would play it, but he had a habit of cracking his index fingers with his thumbs...
The God Of Small Things
“Will you stop that!” Ammu said, so loudly that Murlidharan, who had hopped off the milestone to stare into the Plymouth, backed off, his stumps jerking in alarm. “What?” Rahel said, but knew immediately what. Her spit bubble. “Sorry, Ammu,” Rahel said. “Sorry doesn’t...