You arrived after work at the designated meeting point at the bar in the hotel. As organised, there was a table with your name and a drink waiting for you. Also on the table was a note stating that a second drink would appear along with another note delivered by the waiter. You were pensive and a little unsure. You took a gulp of the vodka martini to settle the nerves. You settled back into your chair with a smile of sati...
The midnight train had already passed more nameless suburbs than I cared to count; drab, still and silent they all were under a full September moon. The endless clatter of steel against steel and concrete had lulled me into a state of limbo; hanging somewhere between sleep and wakefulness. I was at the back of the rail car and I could see a tight group of Chinese teens laughing and joking at the far end; obviously obeying...
Jason wiped the condensation from the bus window with the back of his hand and looked out at the emptying festival site. The British weather had been unremitting since Thursday, and the once-green fields had long since become a swamp. His attention was suddenly drawn towards a beautiful young Indian woman in a group of festival-goers leaving the site. The girl was barefoot, calf-deep in the cloying mud, with the hem of he...
