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All Waters Lead to Rome
He then added, ‘It is said the Emperor himself reviewed the final plans. This water will fuel the new public baths and…
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It was 100% chemical perfection. No gluten to inflame the gut. No sugar to spike the blood. No fat to clog the…
The Forest Purgatory
As a Detective Inspector, I had seen my share of grim discoveries in the Icelandic highlands, but the skull sitting in the…
The Loquacious, Inquisitorial Vending Machine
The hunger was a dull ache, and the solution was simple. You stood in the neon glow of the staff room, sliding…
The Lizard of Oz
Within minutes, a small crowd had gathered, cheering and throwing confetti made of rose petals. Lizzie tried to explain that her greatest…
The Strange Case of Dr Frankenstein and Mr Adam*
For months, the townspeople had whispered about the reclusive nature of the brilliant doctor. They spoke of strange noises echoing from his…
The Telegraph Sold to a German Media Giant
The interview takes place on The Ink & Penny coffee house’s small, slightly crowded terrace, located directly across the road from the…
Love Letter to a Book
The journey with Jonathan Harker into the rugged Carpathian Mountains felt less like a simple prologue and more like a descent into…
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0.00% Crunch
It was 100% chemical perfection. No gluten to inflame the gut. No sugar to spike the blood. No fat to clog the tubes. No salt to strain the pump. It was a perfectly engineered, mathematically flawless fuel for a perfectly miserable existence.…
All Waters Lead to Rome
He then added, ‘It is said the Emperor himself reviewed the final plans. This water will fuel the new public baths and supply the main fountains. It is more than just water, Dominus.…
The Sun Eater
The desert landscape of my mind was an endless, sun-baked expanse of textured sand, a tapestry woven from memory and dust…
Unclothed
We have to start with a vital distinction famously drawn by art historian Sir Kenneth Clark: the ‘nude’ is an idealisation, a means of affirming ultimate perfection, and a tangible vision of ideal…
The Unravelling of the Crimson Sphere
The object seemed both fruit and architecture. Its outer rind was a deep, glossy scarlet, but where the skin had been ruptured, it revealed an intricate honeycomb of amber cells…
Liquid Sun: The New Crop
‘Batch Twenty-Omega is ready for harvest,’ a soft synthetic voice chimed in her earpiece…
The Kamikaze Meta-Archivist
He was throwing the entirety of human history into the vast, indifferent ether of the deep cosmos, casting it out to any civilisation advanced enough to catch the signal. The upload progress ticked…
Eye Contact
Fear vanished, replaced by wonder, and a warm feeling enveloped him. His long journey was just beginning…
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John Connolly – The Book of Lost Things
The world’s great authors discuss their best-known novel. Today, John Connolly (presented by Harriett Gilbert): https://www.bbc.com/audio/play/w3ct97sw…
All Waters Lead to Rome
He then added, ‘It is said the Emperor himself reviewed the final plans. This water will fuel the new public baths and supply the…
0.00% Crunch
It was 100% chemical perfection. No gluten to inflame the gut. No sugar to spike the blood. No fat to clog the tubes. No…
The Lizard of Oz
Within minutes, a small crowd had gathered, cheering and throwing confetti made of rose petals. Lizzie tried to explain that her greatest achievement to…
The Forest Purgatory
As a Detective Inspector, I had seen my share of grim discoveries in the Icelandic highlands, but the skull sitting in the black mud…
The Loquacious, Inquisitorial Vending Machine
The hunger was a dull ache, and the solution was simple. You stood in the neon glow of the staff room, sliding two coins…
The Sun Eater
The desert landscape of my mind was an endless, sun-baked expanse of textured sand, a tapestry woven from memory and dust…
An Intriguing Avant-Garde Proposition (Part 2)
Following on from yesterday’s article, here is the promised exhaustive critique of the 100-word text written in an invented language…
A Mediterranean-Style Lyric Essay
I read the piece once, and it sounded like a beautifully crafted essay on pure presence and meditation. Then I noticed that something was…
An Intriguing Avant-Garde Proposition (Part 1)
Plonk jorping quax, yornek slithered frob. Whick vriz quaffle, trundling gribble xylar plink. Grust zol, flizz triffled yornek. Xylar vraz glorped, bronting slithy unk…
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The tension is personified by Statler and Waldorf, the two elderly cynics perched permanently in the box seats. They are the ultimate…
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From the quiet shelves of forty-four national archives and ancient university libraries to the cosy corners of independent bookstores and modest home…
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