Month: August 2020

Australia, a land of sunshine and surf, of great tracts of unspoiled land, of high living standards and affordable property, but also of poisonous snakes and spiders and

On a strip of land by the coast, the wind blowing and the restless water churning, the tall building stands, the lights within the only promise of warmth.

Arkansas, 1999, and nurse Mandy is pulling double duty at the hospital with a 12 hour shift, another through-the-night saga of dialysis, dementia, drug overdoses and failed suicide

October 30th, the last hour before midnight and the sparse crowd of night owls are watching Murnau’s Nosferatu when a bloodied man runs in to the auditorium, at

Somewhere in the skies between Greenland and Iceland flight NHL234 from Vancouver to Frankfurt was lost with all hands, but this tragedy was no normal aviation disaster, it

Little Happy, a former fishing village off the coast of Mozambique, now a victim of climate change and almost abandoned as rising sea levels have reduced it to

The streets of Val Malaina in Rome in the post-war depression, the men queued up in hopes of finding employment; Antonio Ricci is fortunate to have been chosen

On the upper tip of the north island of New Zealand, Waikato is a large region of unspoiled wilderness and sparse communities, home to less than half a

A daydream or waking nightmare travels cross-country with Atticus Freeman, of flying saucers and tripod machines with death rays, of winged, tentacled demons and exotic women who descend

To the ancient astronomers, it pleased their beliefs that the cosmos was an ordered place where the stars and planets moved on fixed and fully predictable paths, that