Quo Vadis?

Quo Vadis? … the masochistic milk of human blindness that fuels low self-esteem that nourishes neglected youth when confidence slips sadly, silently between the cracks of childhood… … success becomes not even a tenuous dream but instead a foreign concept for citizens of comfortable stables; the rest, the wistful waifs destined to look on, unable […]

It was better before

               It was better before Ma says the wind’s coming, the bad wind. But I see nothing wrong. It’s very warm today. My best friend and his grubby little brother have gone. Their wrinkled Grandpa lives somewhere safe they said. Da is dead. The cough got him.   I […]

Children Or Pets, Who Do We Care For?

Rebel Voice was listening to an Irish radio station recently, and it had a piece about a job that was on offer involving nothing other than cuddling cats. I shit you not, cuddling cats. The idea was that, after surgery, the felines need some human contact to reassure them. The clinic that was seeking a […]

Childcentric Focus For The Future – A Discussion Point

It can be said that there is nothing so abhorrent as the killing or harming of children. Across the world today, there are numerous groups, state-led and otherwise, who care nothing for the lives of the young. Whether it is Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Myanmar, Palestine or any of the other multitude of conflict zones, children […]