Life Through a Lens
With hindsight everything looks so much easier and better. It’s ever so easy to say how things would be different had you just done x – but you have to… Read more Life Through a Lens →
Yorkshire by Nature
Is that thine. Nay lad shu’ thi gob th’art nesh thee is that thine nah then how much. A pint ‘o mild is that thine dahn t’coil oil tha knows… Read more Yorkshire by Nature →
By the Sea
“From the moment of the first signs of it, a man would be dead in an hour. Some lasted for several hours. Many died within ten or fifteen minutes of… Read more By the Sea →
Freedom and Pressure
Presently the light increased and a moment later, to my delight, I came upon a flight of steps leading upward, at the top of which the brilliant light of the… Read more Freedom and Pressure →
Trains at Night
Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one. The gentleman who uttered the cries was evidently a belated Mormon. He was breathless with running. Happily for him, the station… Read more Trains at Night →
Blackpool or Bust
From then until possibly midnight all was silence, the silence of the dead; then, suddenly, the awful moan of the morning broke upon my startled ears, and there came again… Read more Blackpool or Bust →
An Adventure in the Hills
“I cannot tell,” she returned, “but you may come with me, if you like. If Oz will not give you any brains you will be no worse off than you… Read more An Adventure in the Hills →
War of the Worlds
Close on its apparition, and blindingly violet by contrast, danced out the first lightning of the gathering storm, and the thunder burst like a rocket overhead. The horse took the bit between his teeth and bolted. A moderate incline runs towards the foot of Maybury Hill, and down this we clattered. Once the lightning had begun, it went on in as rapid a succession of flashes as I have ever seen. The thunderclaps, treading one on the heels of another and with a strange crackling accompaniment, sounded more like the… Read more War of the Worlds →