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Blade runner

The audio for “Blade runner” is featured in this episode ☝️ of the Without a hitch podcastThe second episode of a trilogy of hitchhiking stories I was at an immediate disadvantage when he pulled the machete out from under his seat. I was unarmed and had no experience with combat in

Beyond a joke

The audio for “Beyond a joke” is featured in this episode ☝️ of the Without a hitch podcastThe third episode of a trilogy of hitchhiking stories Before we started dancing for rides, we just stood there holding a big cardboard sign with SOUTH, PLEASE sketched on it. We were hitchhiking from

Giddy heights

A short tall man, Bill Murray, some elastic stick people and an intrusion of Japanese cockroaches A short tall man I’m a short tall man. A fraction shy of six foot three, my head sometimes brushes low ceilings or doorways. I may have to stoop to get under low

Perceptions: Mouse vs mouse

My wife and I perceive mice differently. I see the wee field mouse on the left. She sees the super poisonous rodent demon on the right. We all have our strengths and weaknesses. I certainly have more weaknesses than her (I won't list them here; I'm

Spaced out

Have you even seen a murmuration? A huge mass of starlings synchronising their movements as an enigmatic, contorting organism. It’s a graceful feat of mass cooperation, each bird turning and moving in time with the next. The starling shares its personal space with strangers well. I wonder if animals

Safety and a sandpit

A cigarette was never far from her mouth and she was fastidious with the ash. Her puffy, dark hair fell over one eye and she had a habit of pulling her legs against her chest so she could disappear into her jersey. “Is R-A-P-E a word?” I asked, as I

My kinda cuppa

Some of us prefer coffee, others tea. What does our choice of brew say about us? Nineteenth-century French novelist Honoré de Balzac reputedly drank up to 50 cups of coffee a day towards the end of his (short) life. He sometimes had to eat dry coffee grounds to get his