the twilight is as green as greenstone
and there’s a cold front coming. Continue reading
romance
The best man
Marry me—let’s do it today
and tomorrow we’ll toast tequila
I’ll show you the fires of Manua Kea
and you can show me the dark side of the moon. Continue reading
Is love still possible?
I found this story while browsing the archive this morning. It’s one of my early stories but it still made me smile. And the question remains…
June 2004 – Even though everything in the Universe was accelerating away from everything else and domestic life had become increasingly strange with widespread disintegration expected, Harry Plum, who was editing vowels, only really started to worry when the ‘a’ disappeared from the line he was working on. Continue reading
Lunch at La Fontaine du Mars
Eating in France, and Paris in particular, is easy and provided the traveller doesn’t venture into either the reptilian or the gastropod clades (if you do, you’re on your own) you can choose with confidence anything from the menu from gigot d’agneau to yaourt maigre. Generally, the French are such good cooks and the cuisine so refined that anything you order, regardless of ingredient, will taste better than anything you’ve ever eaten before and better than you ever will again until you return to Paris as you inevitably will… Continue reading
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