Aug 23, 2025 | Lies, Truth & Lies |
So it was I had my first experience of the New Accelerator. Practically we had been running about and saying and doing all sorts of things in the space of a second or so of time. We had lived half an hour while the band had played, perhaps, two bars. But the effect it...
Aug 16, 2025 | Lies, Truth & Lies |
As little Franck talks about why he thinks adults are afraid of children’s sexuality, someone in the background rides by on a loud motorcycle. Franck turns his head to look. He’s nine, but his body language is that of a teenager: he wants to know what’s going on...
Jul 19, 2025 | Lies, Truth & Lies
The house was cramped and musty and low ceilinged. There was beige carpet from the seventies, bric-a-brac on every windowsill, secondhand furniture that smelled incurably of smoke. Someone had taped a hand-drawn sketch of a mallard to the lintel above the stairs,...
Jul 12, 2025 | Lies, Truth & Lies |
Neantderthals were prone to depression, he said. He said they were prone to addiction, too, and especially smoking. Although it was likely, he said, that these noble and mysterious Thals (as he sometimes referred to the Neanderthals) extracted nicotine from the...
Jul 5, 2025 | Lies, Truth & Lies |
Randall Randall “I only want one egg this morning,” Randall said. “Bacon or sausage?””Sausage.””We’re out of sausage,” Claudia said.”Then why did you ask me?”She put the bacon on the counter next to the...
Jun 28, 2025 | Lies, Truth & Lies
In the cosmic calendar of the universe and life, with the Big Bang happening on January 1st, almost fourteen billion years ago, when a supercharged universe-dense speck of energy blew open at the speed of faster-than-light and a thousand trillion degrees Celsius, an...