AMoNov 9, 201816 minZeitSummer drains the last of its energy, browning the bracken and plumping blackberries. There will be no grandstand peroration for the...
AMoNov 9, 20189 minIn Fairness"In the morning the effects of the Grey Man's curse were sufficiently plain; rocks had been detached that no earthly power could move,...
AMoNov 9, 20184 minPebblesI needed to get lonely. I was full reeling drunk, caught out by those last three or two shots, doing my unlevel best to walk a straight...
AMoNov 9, 201810 minWinters PastDecember 2011, a few nights before the solstice: I am all but asleep at the wheel on the M80 between Stirling and Glasgow. It’s 3 a.m.,...
AMoNov 9, 201813 minFight the MoonlightThe raven bounces on the air overhead, folds its wings as it rides a weightless arc, inverts and drops like a dart, spirals upright and...
AMoNov 9, 201811 minLa RépubliqueYou were in the Alps. Was it good? Yeah, it was good, but… For no obvious reason, I spent the first few days in Chamonix swaying between...
AMoNov 9, 20185 minAmerican Tales: Hot Tub CougarJust outta Bridgeport, there's some hot springs up a dirt track behind the ranger office. Real nice spot. Great views over the mountains...
AMoNov 9, 20184 minTriptychIn the month before Christmas, I got to know a segment of paved ground outside Morrisons in a town called Rothwell, near Leeds. It was a...
AMoNov 9, 20189 minMatter Under MindFingers piano play the flatness at the back of a rounded break, toes smudge on subtle scoops and dimples, limbs twist and press with ...
AMoNov 9, 201811 minFreefallsSqurrrrrk ...is it on? OK. It's been a while, last year in fact, since I wrote on this blog. I posted a couple of stories from our two...
AMoNov 9, 201811 minAmerican Tales: The RostrumWe're sitting in the parking lot of Annett's Mono Village the morning after the Incredible Hulk. Walking out took a lot less time,...
AMoNov 9, 20188 minAmerican Tales: The Incredible Hulk: ...the Third Pillar of Daaaana....the Needles...buy a Golden Eagle pass...Andrew, you have got to climb OZ. For the true effect of this...
AMoNov 9, 20184 minThe ZoneViolence sweeps through the Zone, wave after wave, leaving rainbows. These are not the only conspiracy of the rain and light to capture...
AMoNov 9, 20183 minDream LiberatorHere’s a feeling I’d forgotten, a summer sensation with a twist of the mystic, not a thing at all maybe – but it brings a strange...