“Welcome to the Eco Barefoot Hotel. Can I offer you a fresh towel and a complementary papaya juice? You’re most welcome, sir. How was...

“DEAR MR. SIR, I apologize to encroach into your privacy in this manner, but I approach you in a request for assistance regarding a...

You know what the worst thing about the hotels around the Mediterranean heel of Italy is? It's the nightly struggle with the hotel AC....

TODAY WAS A SPECIAL DAY. He pulls up in front of the pharmacy and triple-checks his belongings: ID, Health Insurance Card, tissues –...

THE NOISY CHATTER ON NIKOLSKAYA, the pedestrian street connecting the Red Square and Lubyanka, falls mute against the thick windows of...

“HOW MUCH FOR THIS ONE?” I held up a heavy, ornamented necklace. The gold souk was alive and glittering. Street merchants everywhere,...

“YOUNG MAN! Young man! Wait just one moment please!” The portly Sausage Roll Lady comes waddling out of the bakery, waving her doughy...

OH NO. Here we go again – 8.30 am sharp – armed with that sizzling, hot cup of coffee and that wet Bircher Müesli she mechanically...

“IT REALLY IS a wonderful house!” Enthusiastically, I eye the pretty real estate agent. For the past hour she’d shown us around the...

“WHAT THE FU… - Baby! Come and look at this!” I pointed at my dick. “What is it?” “I dunno. Looks like a rash.” “How long has it been...

STANDING ON THE STAGE of the auditorium, the man glances anxiously at the clock. The long arm indicates seven minutes past the hour. Why...

THE SIGNS were all there. It was so obvious! Why did everyone refuse to see it but him? For many weeks now he’d been gathering...

I open my eyes. Sunlight presses through the slits of the blinds, illuminating golden specks of dust that float through space. I press my...