Death Sentences

stories set in past, present and future. Some will prickle the scalp, others raise a smile. You’ll nod in appreciation of a piece of sleight-of-hand, or find your pulse quickening as a bomb is primed to explode. There are pleasing twists at the ends of some, while others resonate long in the mind, having left something at their conclusion for

What should he read now, he wondered, to lull him to sleep?

In Flanders Field the poppies grow,” he recited by way of giving homage to these fallen comrades. “Between the crosses row on row.”

history is made by great forces, not great men

Roman history would have followed the same course without Caesar,” Altman added now, “and France would have followed the same course without Napoleon.”

publisher in the USA decided I should tour there. This was in the late 1980s, and I discovered that many American