Colin Fell

The car, a maroon SUV, sits at an angle across the road; has it skidded in the snow, or has the driver encountered an obstacle, and decided to turn round before having their attention called by someone just out of picture? Two men, masked, move towards her, and now the driver decides to turn fully and move away. Whilst she’s in mid manoeuvre, one of the masked men advances to the driver’s door, produces a firearm, and proceeds to discharge it through the window, three times.

This appropriately blurry picture is one of the few that I have of a house where I spent a lot of time as a child, and its unfocused...

“Your problem is, that you’re so sentimental,” he claimed. I raised an eyebrow quizzically, in a way that I hoped indicated mild...

There’s a nice moment in E. M. Forster’s A Room with a View (well, there are countless, but only one that I want to write about today). A...