A Brave New World … from my Balcony
Every day I witness the grand spectacle of the neighbours I see from my balcony. People I never knew existed, people I never cared about, people I still don’t speak […]
Category Archives: Humour
The Ambassador’s Party
The party at the Ambassador’s house had just begun. It was a cocktail party, mingle-shmingle type. I was lousy at it, always had been. I seemed hermetic to any social […]
Decisions
He was so unsettled he was unable to make a decision. Any decision. Buying coffee was a problem. When asked which size he wanted, small or big, he would always […]
The Candy Store
The Candy Store October 26th, 2015 A candy store. Like that was going to pay her rent. She thrust a knife into the mannequin. But the heart was not there […]
The Date
The cold water rushed over her as she was walking towards the port. When she turned back to see where it had come from she missed a step and slipped […]
Overheard @ the Opening
“The global diaspora has enormous implications for a world economy linked by a thick web of transnational flows of capital and labour. Globalization …” He stopped mid-sentence as he saw […]
The Secret
I have never told anybody this story – ever. At first I could not because I was so shocked by it that all I managed to do was store this […]
The Wedding Cake
It was pouring in London. As usual. But he didn’t care, he had to deliver this wedding cake and fast. Of all times for the cell phone not to work. […]
Masquerade
It had been an otherwise average day in Waikiki. The beach was crowded with lei-draped tourists sipping Mai-Tais. The explosion of sand was the last thing anybody expected. Everybody looked […]
Silver.Coated.Almonds.
Three words. Silver. Coated. Almonds. Oh this was going to be a great party all right, she thought, and popped one into her bright-red-lipsticked-mouth. She moved along the room smiling […]
