Sometimes I feel like I’m a member of the last well-mannered generation—that is, the last generation to know swift discipline....
Photographer Edward Lee shares some of his photos, as well as his musings on them. Fence The railings that surround...
Conleth Ferris tossed a cigarette end to the yard. He coughed, then swallowed the phlegm, imagined the inside of his...
Life From a Garden Fence A wooden rain barrel— weathered and worn— slowly bleeds sweet elixir in drips and drabs...
Gyrification There will be time for waiting Enough. Too much Aaaaaaaaaaaaaa watching. Consider the river’s meanders that more and more...
An abridged version of “Fifty-Pence for the Meter” was broadcasted on BBC Radio 4 as part of their Short Works...
The silence in that room had a warmth to it. It was the kind of silence which could only exist...
Ardmore Bay Hearts may be harvested at such a place, between the sea and the dishevelled land Where in a...
My mother told me to mow the lawn. I refused. I pointed out that to raze the grass, to behead...
There’s a certain point you get to, in middle age or thereabouts, where you start asking yourself questions about times...
The first and only time Lucien roasted a whole pig he had cranked the spit for hours. The pig barn...
TO THE RABBIT I KILLED ON THE ROAD THIS MORNING When I am dead as you are dead, struck down...