Tag: comedy

It’s safe to say that neither Patty nor Simon won any popularity contests at their high schools, two outsiders caught in a system which expects compliance. While Patty

It is rare for anyone to know and understand themselves as completely as Catherine Black, manager of the Obsidian hedge fund, a self-described “materialistic, narcissistic, self-absorbed misanthrope,” and

The Deputy Assistant Editor of the reviews section of film magazine Vicious Fanatics, Joel thinks he knows horror but his ability to determine how a scene will end

“It was beauty killed the beast” was the epitaph of King Kong, but it was necessity which suggested to American zoology student Jane Chase that she spend the

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

El Destierro in the Free and Sovereign State of Sonora at the northwest tip of Mexico, on the border of Arizona, a place to be forgotten but not

Life is not good for Dane “Marbles” Marbeck; it’s two years since his father died and his mother Janine has decided to sell the family farm, generously giving

Paris, alive and vibrant, a city of fashion, art, entertainment, dining and shopping, at the centre of it the Les Grandes Galeries, a department store of every desire,

The Ilkley Literature Festival, a chance to meet authors and publishers, to discuss new works and classics, to relax in the historic West Yorkshire town in the company

“Becky is as strong-willed and vindictive as they come.” Perhaps not a recommendation in the traditional sense, particularly from a prospective step-parent when speaking about her fiancé’s thirteen-year-old