Billy the magic bat.

Ben and his magic bat.

I Have a Cunning Plan

‘In Bonobo society, females form alliances to intimidate males, sexual behaviour (in virtually every partner combination) replaces aggression and serves many social functions, and unrelated groups m

Black and White: The Letter

It was a black and white landscape. Ebony ink, ivory parchment. Her hand on the quill was slender and elegant, the skin pale and smooth.

A Minute of Your Time

The boy can't help it.
Cherry

The Voice

What’s left when the body fades, The face drawn to a mask? Utterly definable through a century, More perfectly preserved than wind-stabbed stone, The human voice is utterly unflinching,

Poetry a medium for any message

Poetry is amongst the most treasured of our oral traditions. Hundreds of years ago, poets sat around smoky peat fires reciting tales of their ancestors to an audience of the unlettered.
Cherry

Observing a Lizard

He is only a grey skittering movement on the face of a sunripened stone. Offering his presence in the morning’s tall heat, slowly contemplating the sting of red dust
Cherry

A heart-rending account

He's still warm when I return from my shower. I comb my hair and scuff cells from the smothering pillow. He jitters posthumously as I open his chest and truffle about

The compassionate surgeon

He lays you down, brings you toffee and rum, not tapioca and tap water, or vegetable oil-based orange. He listens to your pulse with his whole head, tells you it's OK, brings you

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