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  • OTHER PEOPLE’S FLOWERS: LESLEY CLIVE, PLAYWRIGHT – BRANWELL JOHNSON
    by David Selzer

    My mother Lesley Johnson is an award-winning Wirral playwright with several works under her belt penned...

  • SPOILS OF WAR
    by David Selzer

    For more than eighty years the wind, the blown sand, the salty air, and the high...

  • AN AMERICAN DECADE
    by David Selzer

    We watched the moon landing on a small tv – black and white, of course –...

  • A MANIFEST DESTINY
    by David Selzer

    Like stopped clocks narcissists can be guaranteed to get something right at least once: witness re-naming...

  • CLUELESS IN GAZA
    by David Selzer

    For Drew Steele   Two old men, one with a raggedy spray tan, the other an...

  • VESTIGES
    by David Selzer

    We followed the signs from the car park. Set on a promontory high above the Bay...

  • BETWEEN RIVERS: WINTER 2025 ‘DINAS BRÂN’ – ALAN HORNE
    by David Selzer

    BETWEEN RIVERS is a quarterly series edited by Alan Horne. It is focused on thearea bounded...

  • AT FAST EDDIES
    by David Selzer

    The world has turned many times since I was last at Fast Eddies on 4th Street...

  • AMONG THE BARBARIANS
    by David Selzer

    Not long before Vladimir Putin was first crowned president in the Kremlin cathedral where the Romanovs...

  • A BREAK IN THE JOURNEY
    by David Selzer

    We were driving from Paris to Bordeaux one particularly hot August, more than forty years ago...

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