Aug 30, 2025 | Essays, Non-Fiction |
Let’s take a second to consider what we associate with the word practical. If we look for its etymology, we quickly run into notions like this: Practical: from the Greek practikos via Latin to the French practique and finally to English. Practical is to move from...
Oct 30, 2022 | Fiction, Short Stories |
For the fourth time in as many years, they were confronted with the problem of what birthday present to take to a young man who was incurably deranged in his mind. Desires he had none. Man-made objects were to him either hives of evil, vibrant with a malignant...
Apr 30, 2022 | Non-Fiction, Travel |
I once knew a young suicide. I cannot remember what disappointment in love it was which induced him to send a bullet carefully into his heart. I have no notion what literary temptation he had succumbed to when he drew on a pair of white gloves before the shot. But I...
Apr 21, 2019 | Fiction, Short Stories |
A Dark and Winding RoadAround nine o’clock, I pulled my sleeping bag out and unrolled it on the bed which was covered in old blankets and dust and mouse poop, and slept with no trouble at all. In the morning I guzzled a litre of mineral water and drove on the dark and...
