Rome’s souvenir shops are full of busts, plaques and other artefacts mixing the sacre and the profane —and sometimes even things that have nothing to do with the Eternal C...
5 August, 2025
Bentley JPG 378 – a One Shot Story.
Of what follows almost nothing could be true, or it all could be. The problem is that it comes mainly from my childhood memories and there is no-one left to corroborate or not. ...
3 August, 2025
Dreaming of the pool (One for Dave Powell)
Reader discretion advised: references to extreme violence and an image of blood and gore – The featured image and the one below taken by my daughter on a smartphone. It wa...
1 August, 2025
Be Careful with Generative AI! (One Shot Story)
On July 17, 2025, more than 1,500 anti-Trump “Make Good Trouble” protests (totaling perhaps 56,000 people) occurred across the U.S. Of these, nearly 100 groups gathered in Massa...
1 August, 2025
The mystery of the car in the attic – a one shot story
We have all heard of barn finds – abandoned cars, tractors, sometimes even whole classic car-collections that were left to collect dust and grime in barns and garages unti...
25 July, 2025
Autumn Artichokes – An Ekphrastic* Poem (One Shot Story)
Past their prime in a Paris garden. Abandoned artichokes. Wrapped in brown against autumn winds. Forgotten. Inedible. Suitable now for fall arrangements. Or compost. Grieving al...
24 July, 2025
It wos the camera wot done it – A one shot story
Or to give it its full title, ‘Nothing to do wiv me, guv. It wos the camera wot done it, honest.’ Towards the end of a canal walk in North London on one of the hotte...
17 July, 2025
Still, Like Yesterday – One Shot Story
My wife and I were seen as the lucky ones when we settled in Tasmania. We called it the great escape. Imagine this: fewer than six hundred thousand people living on a land of si...
