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I love this time of year, when it’s already dark by seven thirty. My evening walk just isn’t the same during the summer. It’s no fun sweating while you’re just walking. Running, that’s a different story. That’s strenuous exercise. You’re supposed to sweat. But it’s embarrassing to be seen walking with beads of perspiration rolling […]

“What the f-“ Philip couldn’t get the remainder of what Joanna maintained was his favourite word out. He’d come home early to the secluded cottage they’d moved into during the winter, hoping to surprise her. Turned out she had been thinking along the same lines. She wheeled around to look at him, a little lost […]

“I forgot I used to look so good. So young. You don’t feel yourself aging, you know? Degrading, as the years gradually go by. It’s only when you look back at the photos, the ones you’ve been allowed to keep, that you see the change. But to be staring it right in the face, literally, […]