The worst journey in the world (redux)
What is the worst journey you have ever made? Recent events, public and private, have me remembering my own worst journey and the concept of a bad journey.
Articulations
Articulations: Examples of my creative writing: aphorisms, poems, short stories, humour (“humour”), (auto)biography, translations and more. Read Articulating myself for more details or scroll down.
Isidora: the city she lost
An unnamed traveller returns to Isidora, a city she left long ago. It is not like she remembers. A short story inspired by Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities.
Grendel the stockbroker
Grendel is disappointed in his new neighbour, Rothgar. The feasting and noise night after night is too much… and Grendel’s Dame is unhappy. Grendel has to act!
Six decades of a date – the thirtieth of July
The six decades between 1958 and 2018 – today is my 60th birthday and I’m sharing snapshots of my life from the last six decades.
Laurie in the City of the Unborn
Laurie goes looking for the City of the Unborn – a short story inspired by one of the cities in Italo Calvino’s book of Invisible Cities.
Synopsis of The Long Way to London
A synopsis of The Long Way to London, the first part of Elin’s Story, that I wrote for the Stockholm Writer’s Festival 2018. This version includes hyperlinks to more information about the story and the characters.
The voyage of the Beda – a story overheard
The voyage of the Beda. In the sauna, the heat, the steam, the subdued lighting… If you’re lucky you also get to hear some interesting stories.
Wounds and scar tissue
This week, wounds and scar tissue. Not one of my usual efforts, though it is a kind of a Stop and a kind of a Story. I want to give some explanation of why I’ve not been enthusiastically blogging the last few weeks. It all starts with my birth…
18th April – decades of a date
April 18th – one day in seven decades. And why just this day? What is the significance? It’s the day (in 1986) that I married Mrs SC. Our anniversary.
Fouad the Suave Zouave – a poem
A poem in six verses that originally appeared on Twitter. Apologies to van Gogh for borrowing and butchering his zouave portrait.