Changes in the 'lust balance' of sex and love since the sexual revolution: the example of the Netherlands 'prostitution issue' and the issue of 'immorality among the lower classes'. A new branch of thisdiscussion expressed moral concern for what (from the 1920s to the 1950s) was called ...
It's conference season and he has to present all over the country. It's usually a boring string of business trips, but when he's put on a panel with a fiesty and brilliant woman who the night before had kissed him in a bar, he knows this conference season is going to be very diff...
After years away you return home to your dying father, but will you be able to get your brother to forgive you for leaving? And will you step up to the challenge to inherit your father's most prized possession? Written as part of the 2023 Spring/Summer Contest: Gone Fishin' it is a...
The next morning, I sat in Lorne’s lush little vineyard as he thinned vines and shared his story. This year was the 25thanniversary of his arrival on his piece of the island, at the time a few lobster shanties, overgrown bushes and downed trees. He had kept the original emails and vi...
Dr. David Agus, a renowned oncologist (in The End of Illness) wrote: If you come to me for help in treating advanced cancer detected late in the game, your game is likely to be over soon. I say it because it’s the truth. It’s a shame that the technology and innovation in medic...
Some non-fiction writers are just naturally funny, such as Bill Bryson and David Sedaris. Here the comedy is in the writing. Let’s look at an example from Bryson’sThe Road to Little Dribbling: One of the things that happens when you get older is that you discover lots of new ways ...
but the final images of Vader and the Emperor observing the Death Star are legitimately chilling. Plus, blockbusters are such blandly happy affairs, it’s hard not to like (or at least begrudgingly respect) one that ends with almost all the main characters dying or becoming puppets of an evi...
Robinlovestomakedessert.SodoesherbrotherDavid.Oneday,theygotouttheirmom’scookbookoffamousdesserts.Theystudiedtherecipes.Therewasfrozenstrawberryyogurtandapplepie.Therewasabananacakeandsugars.Thenthechildrenfoundtherecipetheyhadbeenlookingfor—lemonbars.Theyfiguredeveryoneinthe...
Short stories are often a fiction writer’s first introduction to writing, but they can be frustrating to write and difficult to master. How do you fit everything that makes a great story into something so short? And then, once you do finish a short story you’re proud of, what do you...
Many years later in England, as Roberto’s father lies dying in hospital, he hands his son a coded piece of paper which, he says, reveals the secret hiding place of Escobar’s 'missing millions'. The code is published in this book for the first time. ...