Although nauseated and upset by the thought of the chicken, I endeavoured to put it out of my mind and concentrate on my driving. I was coming to the end of the town of Durrow now where the unfortunate incident took place. It was about 5 in the morning and there wasn’t a soul [...]

Amongst all the frantic social pattern  of human activity buzzing around me I noticed a gap in the crowd. A group of four or five old women who must have been about twenty years younger than me were standing there talking with smiling faces. They seemed a happy friendly lot. Hope… And they looked [...]

I gathered my thoughts as best I could. In those few lucid moments I considered hailing a taxi but I didn’t have the name of the hotel written anywhere in Chinese. I could go to another hotel. but what if they didn’t accept credit cards, I wasn’t carrying enough cash. All right, I have [...]