Robert Stott
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I sit quietly having finished my Subway, and am noticing the ceiling at the foodhall in Garden City. It is the most haphazard pastiche of...

The most startling aspect of England's coinage in the late 17th century was the complete ramshackle production of the coins. For such an...

Have you been keeping up with developments in AI? I have just been looking at it and am joining the number of people thrilled and amazed...

In this exercise I had to write three very short stories of a total of up to 50 words in total including- 1. Remember 1. Passion 3....

Fire and Water Haunting Indian sitar, exotic ethnic setting, complex culture, political unrest, sorrowful old women aching for lollies,...

Prohibition was over. Elliot ness had retired to the Bahamas, Al Capone was in jail serving life for tax fraud. The new boss of the gangs...

Escape I am small and thin. Wiry. Perfect for a burglar. The trouble is, on my last job, a sucker got himself killed. I didn’t mean it....

The Tower of London was the host to the English national mint for over 200 years. Nestling inside the walls it was, at least, secure,...

‘Would you like breakfast in bed, my dear? I feel like spoiling you. You have been working so hard in the garden lately – it looks...

These cocktail parties are trouble, Bombay or Bengal all the same; all that babbling and chatter; swigging Bangalore Torpedos and...

An anniversary is a time for reflection, a sad time, a happy time. Most of all, an emotional time. So an anniversary is inherently...

Here's an item I wrote recently. Cody sat in the dark hallway, perfectly still, listening, observing the open door through which the...