Crossing the Curtain David X. Lewis USA Vienna, Sunday 6 March 1988, 20:26 hours Central European Time Edward parked his car with care. The Hofburg palace loomed to his right against a gray and star-less sky. A stray dog lifted its leg at a lamp-post. He heard the...
Smoked Gregory Von Dare USA When a dark-haired young man walked up to the Honorable Desmond Bernard in the public room of the Aristophanes Club and silently presented him with a fresh Cuban cigar, the old spymaster couldn’t hide his delight. He turned the Cohiba...
An Imposition of Greatness James Michael Dorsey USA On February 23, 1945, in the final year of the Second World War, the following words were transmitted during a vicious battle from a bird speck of an island in the East China Sea: Naastosi, Thanzie, Dibeh, Shida,...
Dressed For Eden Stephen Frech USA “But the heart has its own memory.” – Camus We are always burying the dead. In this way, we are like the church interiors of old Dutch prints. Often in the background, workers have removed a stone from the...
