Poets & Models (& Archons)This is a collection of flash fiction, as these 15 brief stories were called by Clare Wigfall, the Berlin-based novelist and short-story…Dec 29, 2024Dec 29, 2024
In Castello di OtrantoIn Castello di Otranto picks up on a story idea considered by Tim, a character in Four Bayswater Stories. Like them, it consists of four…Dec 28, 2024Dec 28, 2024
Four Bayswater StoriesThese four linked stories trace two families, joined by marriage, from the early 1980s to the present, although the sequence jumps around…Dec 28, 2024Dec 28, 2024
Christmas Letter 2024If 2023 saw us do a good deal of traveling, 2024 was filled with family and friends visiting here, with one exception. That was the 40th…Dec 14, 20244Dec 14, 20244
Aurea donaSimple and how the light filters through the windows, a yellow tint, it may be this season’s sun, fading up north, brighter there,Dec 8, 2024Dec 8, 2024
Modus vivendiAffection is the heart of the closer relationships, the I Ching says. If marriage is a frequent path to them, often with a family and…Nov 17, 2024Nov 17, 2024
Some thoughts on marriageAt the end of August, my wife and I celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary. We usually go out ourselves on this occasion, but we invited…Nov 9, 2024Nov 9, 2024
On repeatI was 14 when immortality in some form became my project. Not that I had much to work with at that point, but the motivation was there, the…Oct 28, 2024Oct 28, 2024
The city observedI never thought of myself as a theorist, but my inability even to assemble a flat-pack bookcase, let alone make a flower box for my mother…Oct 26, 2024Oct 26, 2024
