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The rule of sixty six by Nigel Roth
Fifty-four years ago this very month, a game show named Call My Bluff was being hailed as the latest entertainment triumph from the BBC....
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Staking a claim by Nigel Roth
There’s an imaginary school, in a faraway land, by a lake, that teaches magic. The extraordinary students are handpicked to attend, and...
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Show me your little bird by Katia Elkaim
November 3, 2020. The government has just announced a new containment that does not bear its name, in order to put an end to this damn...
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Guns N’ Noses by Nigel Roth
If, on a bright day in 1880, you were sat in the Old Tower Inn, drinking a pint of Bass and browsing the Hampshire Advertiser, you’d...
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Save your own bacon by Nigel Roth
As the US queues at the polls to choose their next aging run-of-the-hill white American male President, in a year that’s made a mockery...
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Vox populi Vox dei by Katia Elkaim
Master Raven on a perched tree, held a cheese in his beak. Master Fox by the odor, attracted by the scent, of his voice made use, and...
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Razing a Nation by Nigel Roth
While 1978 might be better known as the year the Unabomber began his career as a lunatic at Northwestern University, and David Michael...
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A Run For Your Money by Nigel Roth
It’s a hot and steamy night in the summer of 1926, and the Del-Fey Club in Miami is hopping with the sounds and sights of F. Scott...
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The obsessive bed by Katia Elkaim
This morning, armed with a circular saw, I decided to kill my old bed frame. The bugger has been taunting me for more than ten days from...
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Snapshot by Nigel Roth
Jenny sipped her sherry-oak Macallan. She’d got the taste for it while studying in v-London, and sacrificing hunger for liquid...
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