The Night I Faced an Ecuadorian Firing Squad

‘Squad’ might be a tad generous. There were, to the best of my memory, only three rifles aimed at us from the high walls that enclosed the palatial home of Alberto Antonio Alvarez Tufillo, Argentina’s Ambassador to Ecuador. Although the order was barked at us in Spanish, it was pretty clear what they demanded. My […]

The Travel Bug Bites Back

I had travelled for seven months without so much as a common cold or mosquito bite, but it seems that as I near the finish line my luck is finally running out. I don’t easily get sick. Even once in the year is fairly uncommon, but the past few weeks my body feels like its […]

Losing Excuses, Finding Time

These past two months have probably been my most creative and productive when it comes to writing fiction. Bizarre, given the fact that I’m currently travelling around South America, staying in hostels (mainly dormitories) where the opportunities to write and space to type are virtually null. That being said, despite many obstacles in my path […]