Society & Order

Pleasure Beach is huge and dramatic. I do not want to go in. The roller coaster looks very frightening. The sun is high, the sky is blue; a cooler...

Agitated and restless, the urge to create. It grows stronger as you mature, tastes become solid and well loved. Shopping around has come to a natural end. We know what we like and what we don’t like.

A couple return to the City of Moderno and find it has already changed since they were last here, two months before. A city which is always in the vanguard of fashion and technology!

A disaffected young student joins the London riots of August 2011 to fight the big companies and create a revolution.

Star Man 13/1/16 Even the Prime Minister likes Bowie. We are the Bowie generations. Our lives are so regimented. We study, study, and study to find...

My world is changing, The roads where I lived and walked as a child are now marked with yellow lines, double and single. I don’t dare park on the...

Barcelona Attacks 17/8/17 What would it be like if they came here? Islamic State, Al Qaeda, the Taliban, Al Shabbab, or Boko Haram? Decapitations in...

Friends lost, one by one. We have all got to go sometime. Not like this, taken before our time. Not taken, chosen. A desperate way to go. Time ran...

All the hopes of the year Looked forward to this time Gathering at the end, To finish the year in style. Never enough time to be ourselves, Shops all...

My attention span is getting steadily shorter, And yours is even shorter than mine. Have you noticed Time is always running out? Doctors’...

Knife Crime on the streets, Young innocent victims becoming a regular cull. How many innocent victims will it take before this becomes a real...

Brexit Brexit Soft and meaningless? Hard and reckless? Racist or Fascist? Why then do Labour support it with the kind of fervour which will never get...

Pied Piper Pied Piper, Nigel Farage, Mirage Man – now you see him, now you don’t! Where will we see him next? Will he really be there? Or is he just...

The people of 'England' were facing a General Election, but what was going to happen this time? This was co-written by myself and my wife Wendy in 2006. We 'bounced' a few ideas off each other to write it together. As we are now facing another election, and at Christmas time, we both think it is the perfect time to post our joint work on my abctales account, with due credit to my wife Wendy Kirtley.

Virus Dark skies above us, The virus is there, We’ve been told to stay home, If we dare to go out there. We must stay away from people we love,...