Author: Nicolas D. Sampson
‘I would like a coffee with milk and a sandwich with ham and cheese please.’
‘Bitte?’
She stood there, pen and notepad in hand, her...
The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk is a mystifying tale of confused identity, self-reflection, and a world caught between two versions of itself. More than...
“Going places: a phrase that implies success, progress, development, reach, potential. Traveling, in other words, is synonymous with life lived to its fullest.”
Nicolas D....
Good day
Beautiful day
Simple
Mysterious
You flare up
So vital — a blossom
In abundant
Light
Every journey starts with an opening of the eyes and a stretch of the muscles. We fidget our toes and activate our necks, preparing our...
We operate inside a structure much bigger than us, so very old and grand, we deem ourselves minuscule, irrelevant, crushed under the weight of history....
Someone told me once that he’d read Point Omega by Don DeLillo with interest, but couldn’t connect with it. ‘Pointless,’ is how he described it....
Critobulus, a Greek historian, scholar and politician was one of the scribes who documented the Fall of Constantinople and the Ottoman takeover of Byzantium, and...
Come the festive season, I ponder on the scripture. I may be a free thinker invested in the future, not the past, yet the story...
28 February 2028. In a world parallel to ours, and not much unlike it, the Centro Direzionale di Napoli is abandoned. Everyone has relocated to...
‘Die with your boots on, if you’re gonna die.’ Eddie, an old friend of mine, taught me that. He was an ex-marine with three tours...
This coroneted town is like a queen, who, being always with child, has desires of irresistible fury […] She cleaves the world, illuminates it through...