Month: December 2020

Moscow, a city of a proud past upon which has been built a neon-lit future of glittering skyscrapers, hovering drones and holographic entertainment suddenly and shockingly curtailed on

“It was Christmas Eve,” Jerome K Jerome begins, before making clear he understands just how superfluous that information is: “The experienced reader knows it is Christmas Eve, without

It’s been two years since Daniel moved out from the home he shared with his wife and baby daughter, now living alone in a remote cottage across the

Jean Paul Luret has a beautiful house perched atop a hill beyond a road which snakes as it rises, his abode luxurious but tasteful in its modernity and

At the end of everything, at the Barbeau Observatory in the Arctic Circle, among the snow and ice and under the stars he has devoted himself to, with

What happened to Renata Wiskirska that she does not remember? She remembers her husband, Jan, she remembers their son, Kamil, and that she loves them both; she remembers

It was on his tenth birthday that the event which would define the life of Carl Merryweather took place, a family camping trip on which he alone was

Truth or Consequences, located at 33°8′1″N 107°15′10″W, Sierra County, New Mexico population 6,475 as of 2010, down over 800 on the previous decade and with a demographic which

The renowned Doctor Paul Kochar may be dead but his son Doctor Ethan Kochar still lives in his shadow, conducting tutorials from his basement laboratory so his work

The shelves of the supermarket are filled but Anna Pilarinou’s life is empty; branded as “the slowest cashier” by her manager Yannis and keeping her colleagues at a