In Creeslough, on a Friday, time stopped forever for ten people who had things to do. Leona Harper had been raised like all our children; to...

Staring from a golden eye-ring, checking whether you can fly. You just stand and get your bearings, silent when not set up high. Then the as...

I can see myself seeing him, Gorbachev on the TV screen. I recall the library pictures, and the ever-present figure  of Dr. John Harbison, t...

My kingdom for a sausage that can be removed. Not bound by other hostages; chained, and stuck, and glued. Give me the option, drama free, to...

Let her walk the tides, delighting in her tiny feet gifted by the otherside, where all is wine and cheese, and freedom for the ones who died...

But they are ready, don't you understand? Yes, the latest massacre occurred,   but there are plenty more schools in the land. But they a...

Is any food as good as when it's made by someone else? What pleasure and what leisure, regardless of expense. But, better still, the san...

The rabbits eat the bellis while the cat sleeps snug inside, I patrol by dusk and upturn pots to tasty flowers hide. Just one night missed w...

We have a severe sock shortage, and those don't match up in shape; Two pairs of wellies are beyond repair, and we are sick of all the wi...

If it is a case of appointing a replacement, I assure you, Mr. Filitov, that house won't be left vacant. I have the perfect candidate, a...