It had collapsed and taken the pavement with it. Layers of tunnels intersect beneath the city of Swansea. The tunnels were built so many years ago that no one knows where they end or begin. The tunnels are shaky, like those that ants build in the sand. No one knows when the entire ...
Then she goes to look for some parking. As she drives off I slip and fall on the tarmac. She stops and another man lifts me up and we carry on.Out of the emergency entrance a nurse comes out pushing a wheelchair for me to sit in. I am left wondering,’how the hell do they know...
you can't always tell where the hardware ends and the software starts. I've found myself reaching out to manipulate items because they seem so real. Conversely, there are games likeSynth Riderswhere your own arm and hand gestures do control the ...
“i cleaned offices, i worked on assembly lines, i was even a security guard once. i’ve had jobs where we did not have enough breaks, where we used to try to go to the bathroom just so that we could pray.” the east african community, she said, demanded better. “amazon doesn’...
Not sure whether to cast blame on your mother, grandmother, or some other family member when you were young for the cleaning bit, but I suspect the whole family as regards your compulsion to write. And as Heinlein once wrote himself, best to do it in private and remember to wash your ...
sporadically visited parking lot where brown weeds burst through fissures in the pavement, eight senior residents have been awakened by the power cut. They huddle side by side in plastic chairs. Portraiture of sagging faces falling in and out of indelicate light and shadow. Theirs, a blotchy ba...
Groups such as the AA and RAC admit “some streets” should not allow pavement parking if it causes problems to emergency vehicles (紧急车辆) — but they do not believe in a complete ban across the country. AA president Edmund King says, “We would be concerned if there was a total ban...
I don’t know about you but after 52 years, I’m ready to do the right thing and stop going along, just another part of the problem. I want to embrace this idea; I will embrace it. But it is overwhelming. I still hold back on the hope that we can save this planet for my ...
necklace and a skull ring; despite her tough-girl accessories, she comes across as tentative and frail, hugging her studded purse for comfort. “I never thought I would run into these types of people,” she says. “But on the Internet, you’re exposed to people that will do anything.”...
It was a three-story house from the early 1900s: three bedrooms, three bathrooms. It opened onto a courtyard shared with nearby houses – offering both privacy and parking. They quickly commissioned an architect’s report. It was in good condition, he wrote, and had been lived in until re...