A word can change a mind. A sentence can change a life. A book can change the world.
I wrote the following piece in 2014, nine long years ago. So much in the world has changed since then. We’ve had Covid-19, there’s a war between Ukraine and Russia where drones are being used for the first time in real combat missions. And of course, we have a lot of screaming and shouting about…
Walking Away from Midnight Click on #WalkingAwayFromMidnight to see all available extracts Prologue The teenage girl stood at one side of the bed her mother occupied. Her mother looked gaunt, worse than that, her head resembled a living skull, a nightmare figure in her mother’s bed. For a moment she told herself it wasn’t…
It’s official. In my old age I must avoid certain physical exertions. Seems I’m too soft for sex and heavy lifting is an absolute no-no! “Too soft for sex?” I hear you say. Yes, too soft… no, not soft like that! Dem bones are a little brittle. Okay, dear reader, I admit it, I’m a…
I hasten to say, dear reader, that no I am not buying a new bike and taking up cycling. Nope, yesterday was my last chemo session and next week I get assessed for the possibility of an all clear or a new cycle of treatment. I wait and see. Because my health has been a…
When I die, I want to be hermetically sealed in a see-through coffin, loaded into a capsule, stuck on top of a rocket, and blasted into space. It doesn’t matter which way you point me; I know it will be a long journey. Besides, I’ll be dead, and it will not matter a hoot to…
One of the worse things that an ill person can experience is not always pain or discomfort from their illness. Sometimes it’s a lack of knowledge about your illness. Not knowing if you’re getting better, worse or just passing the time of day can be more frightening than pain sometimes. If you know you are…
The Ragged Edge of Time Click on #RaggedEdgeofTime to see all available extracts Chapter Two: Gideon Prime Gideon Prime awoke to bright lights and a low resonance hum. He looked to his left and smiled at the man watching him. The man smiled back. “Hello. Do you know where you are?” Gideon was on a…
Elon Musk, owner of Tesla electric cars and SpaceX, makers of launch vehicles and spacecraft, has long nurtured the desire to see humanity colonise Mars. As one of his websites puts it, The Road to Making Humanity Multiplanetary. To some it’s a noble cause and to others a waste of money. Personally, I’m not in…
Living in Cyprus, where we experience earthquakes every now and then, you would have expected that in fourteen years I would have noticed one or two. Well, unfortunately (don’t I mean fortunately) that was not the case. I tended to miss them, not once but multiple times, until recently. The last one was while we…
All my life, sixty-seven years, cancer has been at the forefront of the world’s health dilemma. People I know, like my mother, an aunt, an uncle, school friends work colleagues and others, have contracted cancer and either lived or died from the experience. My mother was one of the unlucky ones. She had cancer of…
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