Heart & Sole (where terms & conditions apply)

'I so longed to brush his cheek with my finger to put my lips to his to kiss him awake to touch him as someone more than a pal with the aching tenderness that coursed my immobile body.' Neil Raffan exposes his personal vulnerability both emotional and physical through Lost in translation and What Phou respectively; whilst other more robust entries focus on the likes of vascular dementia and carmine bee-eaters family hiatus and travel heaven. 'What was debt anyway? It had no emotion. Letters cheques pieces of mail some more aggressively worded than others. Where was debt's heart and soul?' This is an eclectic collection of shorts with titles such as Buffet and Lanes Woodside contract whist and The Maiden Stone amongst others. And oh yes! Harvey from At the of age of 37 is back in Botswana but without Bryce ... 'Here in the Okavango the spring leaves fall in preparation for the summer rains. How weird and wonderful is that?'