Tag: wealth

• I Don’t Often Comment on American Affairs, But…

  I do have to say this: President Joe Biden is too old. I say it in a non-political way, because I have previously been advised that I don’t know enough about American politics, and I have no wish to offend those who do, but can a man who apparently gets lost on his way to…

  frederick anderson

  August 26, 2021

  Social Comment

  Afghanistan, age, Competence, future, Nuclear, President, survival, wealth

• Hansel and Gretel

  

   “Bettina has farrowed.”  The letter said in my Uncle Owen’s stilted terminology.  “Ten perfect little piglings, four boys and six girls.”   I was shown the picture.  A cluster of grinning faces sniggered back at me. “Ten!”  I was impressed.  Lots of things impress you when you are six. “Poor Bettina!”   My mother sympathized.…

  frederick anderson

  June 11, 2021

  Opinion, Short Stories, Social Comment

  Betrayal, childhood, farm, Husbandry, Impression, Seasonal, wealth

• The Newquay Train

  

  The text read:  ‘You must come and see this’.   Lambert came. That was in 2014, when Tamsyn and he had been searching for a house in a rural setting near Tamsyn’s childhood home for nearly two years.  Property after property had failed to meet their exacting needs, whether by reason of location, size or simple…

  frederick anderson

  April 30, 2021

  Short Stories

  art, ballet, Dance, fiction, greed, Hubris, temptation, wealth