I have the blues. Well, a short story about the Blues, anyway. I thought it would be fun to write it as a "Choose Your Own Adventure" style story. After each part, the reader is presented with choices about what should happen next. Post your vote in the comment sections. I will count each vote until Friday when I will begin writing the next part. Each new part will post on Sunday, with voting closing on Fridays. For each vote (win or lose) made...

What is faith? Faith is trust in things hoped for and belief in things unseen. We live in a physical world but there is also an invisible realm. To have faith in God is to believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. Hebrews 11:1-6. God is an ever present help in times of trouble. Therefore we will not fear, even if the waters roar and foam and the mountains slip into the sea. There is a river that makes glad the city...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Betrayal_(Dunmore_novel) Leningrad 1952/53. Stalin has god-like powers. His paranoia has shaped a super-power in which the greater good is defined by the fear of that knock at the door. No one is safe. Volkov is a fictional character. He has the appellation THE attached to his name in whispers. THE Volkov. To show there’s no misunderstanding. It’s really him. With the fear and state-sponsored terror he brings...

Filed by Fletcher Moody — Literary Correspondent I should tell you before I begin that I cannot prove any of this happened. The only other witness was a woman named Dora Diamant, who told the story to others after the man in question was dead, and whose account has never been independently confirmed. The letters — if they existed — have never been found. The girl has never been identified. I am aware of how this sounds coming from a...

Maya Angelou’s front-cover endorsement of Women Who Run With the Wolves is one of the most famous blurbs in publishing history. ‘Everyone who can read should read this book.’ I can read and I read the book. Around 2.7 million copies sold. But one of those best-selling books I’d never heard of. I’m not sure why. Probably because I’m a guy. ‘Stories are medicine.’ Strong medicine. Healing medicine. Clarissa Pinkola Estés is a cantadora (a keeper...

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Andrew G.Ralston is hooking a ride on one of Scottish television’s most successful cop shows: Taggart . There’s a big kick and lick of the McIlvanney and Laidlaw on which Taggart is based, the idea of the outsider and insider that contacts investigations in his own way—and comes up trumps every time. Everyone in Glasgow was an extra in Taggart. I got paid for it, so I saw lead actor Mick McManus in action, but I was more interested in the free...

Its not often a literay heavy weight arrives in our town. But last night at The Millbank Theatre in Rush, County Dublin, John Banville held a captive audience in the palm his hands. Now at the age of 80, Banville spans the last of Irish literature from the 70's, McGahern, Edna O'Brien and Kavanagh, to the present day contemporary fiction. Scholarly in appearance, Banville was dressed smartly, his terracotta coloured scarf matched his highly...

‘Only a fool thinks that women love differently.’ So says a character in one of her short-stories. ‘Fools and pedagogues.’ Saints and Sinners, take your pick. Edna O’Brien offers all of these things and none, because women’s treachery is different to men’s? ‘Rafferty’, the opening story in the collection. An Irish man in London. He’s been in the English capital all of his working life and now retired longs to return the auld country. He’s loved...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002v48h/to-think-like-a-killer-series-1-episode-1 https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002vd9y/to-think-like-a-killer-series-1-episode-2 https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002vdb0/to-think-like-a-killer-series-1-episode-3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastermind:_To_Think_Like_a_Killer When Ann Burgess left school in 1957, former General and war hero, Dwight D. Eisenhower was President of the richest...