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Welsh Lessons-3

It was five o’clock, after school. They were walking back from International Stores to Rhos-y-Bryn Road; Janice swung her mum’s green and red nylon...
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Welsh Lessons-2

“NICK! The bus goes in TWO MINUTES! We’ve got to get down there now!” “NAH. We’ve got loads of time. It always leaves ten minutes late.” “You sure...
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Welsh Lessons-1

WELSH LESSONS April 1975, on the waste ground where the old abattoir used to be “S’mae?” “Sorry, don’t speak Welsh.” “Just means ‘How’s things? We...
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Borderline

I live on fault lines. Every step is an earthquake, every breath a landslide. I do not walk through the world I tremble through it. Borderline. That’...
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About to go 'pop'

A plague of wild hooded brutes. A feckless mob in cahoots. Skull faces and tired boots. Ignored too long, by grey suits.
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Story of the week

Trump reads Hansel and Gretel

So there were these two kids, Hansel and Gretel - great kids, really terrific kids. Everybody said so. And they had a father, who was, you know, weak...
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The Moral Compass in a Post-Truth World

Fairy tales may be for children, but the lessons they teach echo in doctors’ wards and flotillas alike. From the earliest age, children encounter...

Angels Really!

Appearing sometimes as a man, sometimes a brilliant awesome one, though usually unseen …to tell Zecharaiah …then to Mary … A crowd … at that anguish… the guarding soldiers shook with fright…

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