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 [...]

`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 [...]

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

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 [...]

WAXWORK IDOLS Beware Waxwork Idols. Wax is a strange, elusive material that refuses to stay fixed in one shape. It’s the same with waxwork effigies. You [...]

It’s difficult to make sense of the news nowadays. There have been so many scare stories recently that even the most gullible amongst us are beginning to [...]

TIME TO SUFFER There’s a logic and cunning to the actions of the Anticlock leaders. Take the latest crackpot scheme that they’ve devised to entertain their [...]

THE COSMIC SCANDAL Scandals come and go in Anticlockwise. The latest one though, the Cosmic Scandal, was particularly dramatic. It was as usual centred on [...]

FEAST TO FAMINE We’ve passed from feast to famine in Anticlockwise. Tia told me the other day that I was looking seriously scrawny. One of her [...]