The strange thing about ships is despite them being crowded and stinky and at the mercy of Nature, most times they are like wooden islands of freedom, free from petty concerns and the laws of...

It’s because his wife left him. That’s why he’s acting funny. She left him the other night. While she was putting her bags into the taxi he was outside on the footpath begging her to...

Where were me parents? Where were Becky? I felt so alone, so lost that I could not see. By that I mean, everything round me were a blur, everything inside me were a blur of...

I’m thinking about the cat dying, Dulcie and her knife against my throat, Mrs Irvin and her St Thomas bone… But never my sister. A brother rarely thinks about his sister.

I’ve always thought that love was being foolish and stupid. It’s about being on the edge and I like being on the edge. It’s not divine madness like some people think, there’s no such thing...

It’s the body and eyes that tell what a person is thinking or going to do.