Last night they’d made love but it had left Joe wide awake, as if someone had taken a can opener to his ribcage and exposed the throbbing heart of him. Throwing on some clothes, he’d gone out and hauled the ground sheet off the Tiger, walking the bike up the moonlit road before he mounted, so as ...
He arrests the tea-drinkers’ attention by remarking, ‘You know, my dears, I have lately been preoccupied with that cryptic promise in the Book of Isaiah. That Kings shall be thy nursing fathers and queens thy nursing mothers. Have you ever wondered about this mysterious verse and what the Prophet...
She was more cunning than millions of men; she was more clever than millions of gods; she was more shrewd than millions of akhu-spirits. There was nothing of which she was ignorant in heaven and earth … So-and-so born of so-and-so lives, the poison having died, through the speech of Isis the Grea...