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10 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 167290 times
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Christopher Caldwell
I grew up in England and have since made a home in France, on the banks of the Loire. My writing explores how family, place, and history leave their traces on us.
My stories
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...
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La Barbe Bleue
The very first time I saw him, he was haloed by torchlight and the murmur of a crowd. His reputation was immense - almost impossibly heroic -...
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Goldilocks
Jamileh’s eyes darted around feverishly as she walked down the quiet street on the outskirts of Atlanta. The houses stood prim and square, shutters...
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The jewellery box
The jewellery box was my gateway. When I lifted its clasp, the music — Für Elise, but thinned and sharpened by the tiny pins and teeth of the...
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Yes, sorry, a bit gloomy isn
Posted on Sat, 13 Sep 2025
Yes, sorry, a bit gloomy isn't it? I regret it a bit now. I'll have to write another, but more optimistic to balance the books
Read full commentPosted in Your Case Has Been Referred to an External Agency for Further Processing
This is great. It's something
Posted on Wed, 16 Jul 2025
This is great. It's something I've been wrestling with for over three years now. My therapist might think I had written it were they to read it, but then that's the beauty of something that speaks a universal truth in fresh and clever ways. Thank...
Read full commentPosted in The Obituary Reader
Honoured. Seems I score
Posted on Mon, 20 Jan 2025
Honoured. Seems I score better with comedy, which has always been the case, though I strive to be a serious intellectual. The other night, I had a dream that I was trying very hard to impress someone - could have been an attractive woman or...
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absolutely
Posted on Tue, 07 Jan 2025
We have all done things that we shouldn't have, and if you disagree with that then you probably haven't got much of a conscience. I am bothered by the possibility that writing stuff like this comes across as too 'preachy' though. A little pious....
Read full commentPosted in Hard Pressed
The commercialisation of
Posted on Tue, 10 Dec 2024
The commercialisation of religious holidays often feels out of step with their origins. The Magi, brought gifts that symbolised more than material wealth: gold for kingship, frankincense for divinity, and myrrh for mortality. The gold might have...
Read full commentPosted in CHRISTmas is Cancelled. Part Four.
Being out in the woods has
Posted on Fri, 16 Feb 2024
Being out in the woods has saved me numerous times. I love the woods. Especially the mossy, brackeny, hilly kind with large rhododendrons and wise old trees. Doesn't matter the weather or time of day, it is always inspiring, reviving and calming...
Read full commentPosted in Two kinds of crying : 15th February 2024
Good collection of anatomic
Posted on Tue, 12 Nov 2024
Good collection of anatomic maladies. I'd quite like to see an anatomical model with all of those clearly demarcated. Perhaps including the vented spleen and weaver's bottom, blacksmith's lung and of course, one wouldn't want to miss out writer's...
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The media thrives on hate. I
Posted on Sun, 03 Nov 2024
The media thrives on hate. I see more and more people switching off the news, not owning a TV, not buying papers. I got very depressed last year, mostly to do with all the terrors in the Middle East but not limited to just that. I had a friend...
Read full commentPosted in I HATE YOU!
I'm sure if there is a God She or He will understand.
Posted on Sun, 03 Nov 2024
Surely this God would practise what they preach and offer compassion, and love and turn the other cheek regardless of whatever sins may have been committed. Surely that's the point. No one is born evil and we are all a result of our environment....
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I love me a clootie dumpling.
Posted on Sat, 02 Nov 2024
I love me a clootie dumpling.
Read full commentPosted in Breast, not Beast
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