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Sex sells. It’s older than Adam and Eve. Whisper it, before the internet, people had sex and were even naked together, sometime even at the same time, in the same room, without a phone. Hallie Rubenhold has turned a Ph.D. into an international bestselling book of non-fiction (which we used to call factual) based on a list of prostitutes that sold their bodies around the Covent Garden region of London. Her parameters of study were centred on a...

Posted by onemorething: Another wonderful week of writing on ABCtales. Our Poem of the Week is a very beautiful poem by Yutka, I am the stillness. https://www.abctales.com/story/yutka/i-am-stillness Our Story of the Week is hudsonmoon's very clever and funny, J.C Jones II The Podcast. https://www.abctales.com/story/hudsonmoon/j-c-jones-ii-podcast Our new Inspiration Point is here: https://www.abctales.com/inspiration-point-ip Have a good weekend...

Why do Christians believe that Jesus is the only way to God? In our multicultural society this sounds arrogant. Surely Muslims, Hindus and Jews have a faith. Surely they're good people and God respects them just as much. The question isn't whether somebody is the right or wrong religion. It's a question of whether religion has any value and whether it can actually save anyone at all. What do we need to be saved from? We are sinners. We don't...

Most of us will have heard of Jack the Ripper. Perhaps I should modify that statement and say most of us over forty will have heard of Jack the Ripper. In one film, the premise was Jack the Ripper was a crown prince or some kind of royalty. His killings were quickly covered up by members of the establishment. I couldn’t have told you how many women he killed—five—or where—Whitechapel—other than it being generally a smog filled London. No thought...

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/girl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_(2018_film) Girl is front-page headlines. Not the Belgian entry for the 2018 Cannes Film Festival that won most of the major award but grandstanding between factional groups amid a British Supreme Court’s ruling that men who change gender—through hormone treatment and surgery—are not legally women. Even the use of the term men or women here is problematic. A ruling that...

THE KID YOU RUN THIS TOWN BECAUSE YOU GET AROUND. YOU’RE ALL HEART AND HERE TO STAY. LIKE A WILDFIRE; SET A BLAZE, IT’S A WAR! AND THE CLOCK IS TICKING FADE UP! NO RULES ANYWAY, YOU RUN THIS TOWN. SHOW TIME, AT THE DROP OF A DIME. LIGHTS CAMERA ACTION; DESTINY GET IT. CHAMPION OF WAR; YOU’RE A WARRIOR ON. DISPLAY. THIS IS YOUR MOMENT; GO HARD FOREVER: VICTORY IS YOURS EMPIRE AIN’T NO WAY AROUND IT. YOU’RE BORN FROM THE FIRE, GAME TIME, NEVER...

SHUSH A QUIET RENEWAL, IN NEW SKIN: THIS FRAGMENT OF A SLEEPING HORIZON; THROUGH THE SKY PULSE. WHILE DRIFTING AMONG CELESTIAL ORIGIN, IN UNBOUND HARMONIES TOWARD THE HYMNS OF NEBULA THE VOICES BENEATH THE MOON. PIERCED BY LIGHT, THAT SHUSH ALL OTHER ROTATION, MIGRATION ODYSSEY IN CONSTELLATION. SHUSH! THAT SHAPES THE ENDLESS SWEEP ACROSS THE LUNAR, QUIETING THE MIND IS ALL IN THE MIND. IN THE COMING PRESENCE OF A HEAVENLY BODY. SHUSH WE’RE...

Most authors of what is called non-fiction, but used to be called factual (before the advent of fake news) let the reader know who they are and why they’re qualified to write the book, you’re reading. It’s very much in the same way author’s query agents or publishers. On the cover of the book, it tells us potential readers who he is and what he does: ‘The Extraordinary Life and Career of Britain’s Leading Forensic Psychiatrist’. Dr Duncan tells...