There was an open door just past the cabinet. She darted into the room and took a deep breath. On the table just in front of her was a plat...

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It was winter.   Your eyes were closed each time I came. I'd sit and talk   not knowing if you heard. It felt like the same things...

Sea-bound, land-locked, ringed by high cathedral wall. Journey's end and pilgrims' rest: Saint Andrew's bones make travellers...

(with apologies to Cole Porter) Times have changed and we've often rewound the clock since historians got a shock when Belzoni smas...

Once summers stretched long and hot. Beaches became deserts. Woods were wild, dangerous places. We sat barefoot on branches. Trees ...

You always were the first: born before me (three years, seven months and sixteen days). You got a head start and kept on running. It was...