Nothing against gingers personally, poor things can’t help the way they were born. It’d be callous to suggest they’re defective, and sheer cruelty to remark they’re not quite proper human. The first gingers emerged somewhere in the highlands about four thousand B.C., when dendrochronological records indicate that spreading glaciers forced their ancestors to rely on… Read more

I walk up O’Connell street, a quarter to twelve. I pass three Russians, some strange stand off. The girl is blonde, pretty though I can’t see her face. One man leaves suddenly. The couple are motionless. I half turn, to keep them in view. He is close to her, head a little titled, face says… Read more