SPIRIAN ALTRA Spirian Altra transformed my view of the world in a matter of seconds. It’s amazing how far-reaching some incidents in life can be. The [...]

SNOWFLAKES IN FIRE `Once upon a time in a world of moral self-righteousness, nobody was seriously threatened by pain or death.’ These were the opening [...]

`ONE TWO THREE BANG!’ `One Two Three Bang!’ The words have reverberated through my mind many times since the day it happened. They are words that now [...]

MONSTERS AND MONSTROUS THOUGHTS Monsters and monstrous thoughts were flashing through my mind. I was travelling through an ominously barbaric place where [...]

PURPLE POINTED HATS My head was filled with images of Purple Pointed Hats. I was sitting in a coffee shop in the main railway station of Globopolis waiting [...]

CHECKMATE VERSUS CHEQUERED FLAGS Checkmate is something I rarely achieve in my life. It always appears as a distant possibility, never a tangible reality. [...]

YOU ONLY DIE TWICE When the Anticlocks seized power, they cut me off from my life in Safronika. More painful than mere separation, though, was the [...]

THE SPIDER STATE A loud voice kept reverberating in my head: `Spider State, Spider State.’ Yet nothing made any sense to me. The words hung in the [...]

HEART ATTACK I was suddenly seized by a body-clenching pain. Deep down I knew instantly that it was a heart attack, a massive heart attack. It was [...]

LIFE EXTINCTION I started thinking about life extinction yesterday. I’m not talking about my occasional fits of depression when I reflect on the [...]