There Are Little Kingdoms

There Are Little Kingdoms

It was deadening winter, one of those feeble afternoons with coal smoke for light, but I found myself in reliably cheerful form. I floated above it all, pleasantly distanced, though the streets were as dumb-witted as always that day, and the talkshops were a babble of...
There Are Little Kingdoms

There Are Little Kingdoms

Animal Needs ‘Come on, John,’ said Madge, and she grabbed the car keys, ‘we’ll head for yours.’ You imagine the whole wife-swapping business would take four decisions but really it only takes three. He moves across the low dip of the bottom fields, rat-faced with need...