Fiction

The best that I can guess is that some bad guys cased me and decided that they would wait all day on one of the routes that I use to get to the bank for as many days as it took for me to use that particular route, and then they would strike. And strike they did.

This story originally appeared on ThailandStories.com but as it was set in the Philippines I was asked to rewrite it so it occurred in Thailand. A small matter but I'd like to put the original version here.

A bright day. Daffodils.

A lot of young people were hitch-hiking around Europe in the early sixties. A few adventurous souls made it all the way to India, man.

Lights! Camera! Action!

An exciting night out in London. Booze, women, bright lights...

To appreciate this fan fiction story you will need to know the basic plot of 'Pride and Prejudice'. In this version, Elizabeth spends a night at Pemberley and discovers secret documents which reveal the truth about Darcy's relationship to Wickham - or do they?

Julian's Manila story triggers a seismic event.

What's it like to come home as a tourist ?

Birds sing in absurdly tall palm trees as the only mildly polluted water of the South China Sea sizzles into white foam on scalding magnolia sand.

The Sweet Smell of Council Flat wives

My Lord. Human physicists were strange creatures. They wanted to know how their universe began. Who knows why? What possible benefit could they get from that knowledge? How could those puny pieces of matter even think they were capable of probing the vast intelligence My Lord possesses?

Amy gets hairy but it turns out to be much worse than the onset of puberty.

Stepping over a twisted damp discarded bra I caught sight of her. Standing by some feeble looking new trees she was chainsmoking Rothmans, swearing into her mobile phone and doing her best to ignore her screaming child. Her milky complexion was peppered with medium tan freckles and her short skirt hugged slim pale thighs.

Musings on childhood.