After a bizarre incident in a playground leads to accusations of molesting someone else’s child, a father of two turns to the media to defend himself – but gets rather more than he bargained for…
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Literature
Beauchamp’s Career
A novel by George Meredith which portrays life and love in upper-class Radical circles and satirises the Conservative establishment. Meredith himself was inclined to think it his best novel, and the character Renée de Croisnel was his favourite of his creations.
The Literature Network
"Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood." - Jane Yolen The Literature Network offers searchable online literature for the student, educator, or enthusiast. They currently have over 3500 full books and over 4400 short stories...
Hundreds of Greatest Essays Ever Written
"I make them up, I tell them. Out of my head." - Neil Gaiman"The phrase comes to him before the emotion; but we must add that he is nevertheless a born writer, a man who detests meals, servants, ease, respectability or anything that gets between him and his art; who...
American Paranoid Restaurant
American Paranoid Restaurantby Caleb HildenbrandtA meditation on identity, consumption, and pareidolia. Ninety-five percent true by semi-exact count. Contains the word 'boudoir' twice, 'polaroid' and 'french fries' six times apiece, and 'ejecta' only once. An everyman...
Harajuku (+)
Harajuku (+)by S. Michael ChoiRitchie Ufuo, recent graduate of a Pennsylvania university, moves to Tokyo where he runs into the champagne-and-cocaine Soren Soutern. The louche, high-spending, high-octane group of Japan expats introduce a new world to him, but at what...
Pirate – The barking Kookaburra
Pirate - The barking Kookaburraby Adrian PlitzcoA charming tale of a baby kingfisher bird called Pirate who encounters three dogs and a cat. His love for fun turns their live upside down. As their friendship develops they pretend they are all pirates searching for...
Pedalling Backwards
Pedalling Backwardsby Julia Russell'I behaved badly at that first supper. That's what my parents thought. They didn't say, they wouldn't, but I could see it in their stiffened faces.'On a bleak, muddy island in the Blackwater Estuary, Lizzie struggles to come to terms...
I Was an Internet Addict
I Was an Internet Addictby Hercules BantasHarry was a normal person living a normal life until, one day, he subscribed to the online world of Sword of Valour and the scourge of internet addiction claimed him. Now he lives on the fringes of reality, spending most of...