First published at http://balicwc.com/2018/11/01/the-night-it-happened/ Short story, 1 November 2018. A cloud obscured the moon and my pretty pink cubicle was bathed in dark shadows. It was that kind of night that made the call of nature particularly challenging to answer, especially when the loo was situated outside the main building. It involved walking down the…
Category: Short Stories
An encounter between an Afghan immigrant and a scientist in a London taxi
Short story, 24 November 2018. Nina was drop-dead exhausted. It had been an intensive gruelling five days and nights of training where every nerve, synapse and muscle in her body and brain had been stimulated, stretched and twisted to breaking point. First, the need to absorb and digest the truckloads of vital information delivered at…