Short Story (Fiction): Fun and Games |
After dinner, the four of them were sitting in Gregs living room, drinking whiskey and ginger ales; Lyle and Bridgette on the couch, while Greg and his wife Lisa took the two chairs opposite them, wi...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Dec 2008 05:20:00 GMT |
Short Story (fiction): Autumn Revisited |
Autumn Revisitedby Nick ReiffMy father had a cheap violin. In the days when he was forty pounds lighter and his clothes hung off him, when he was full of half-dreamed philosophy and a religious love f...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Sep 2008 02:08:00 GMT |
short story (fiction): the testimony of the devoured |
The Testimony of the Devouredby Nick ReiffAbout a month ago, I misplaced my wife.Strange to think. You know, it's common enough to divorce a wife, or live apart from a wife, but to misplace one? And t...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:52:00 GMT |
Kabul Area Driving Guide |
While working this past year in Afghanistan, I had to commute between Kabul and Bagram Air Force Base every day. The drive, which took about an hour if you moved quickly, started out in central Kabul,...
Posted by on Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:29:00 GMT |
Into Pakistan |
After two days rest back in Kabul (spent working out and eating to try and regain some of my lost body-mass), I organized a car to the border at Torkham. The morning before I headed out, however, I go...
Posted by on Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:47:00 GMT |
Shignan and Beyond |
As I say, arriving at the guesthouse in Sarhad it turned out that the car had come a day early for some reason, so I took the opportunity to get a head start on my return journey and we drove back to ...
Posted by on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:47:00 GMT |
The Wakhan Corridor |
Last I'd written I'd just returned from Andkhoi, the Uzbek/Turkmen market town up north. Since I came back a day earlier than I anticipated, I decided to take a day trip south to the village of Samang...
Posted by on Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:46:00 GMT |
Afghan Turkestan |
Dated Late April: I finished my job on Thursday, at last, and on Friday my driver and friend Qais came to my house to pick me up and take me to the taxi stand for Mazar-e-Sharif, which is the major ci...
Posted by on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:12:00 GMT |
How the Taliban Nearly Killed the Party |
Late last month, I had the idea to write an article about the Kabul nightlife and expat social scene here in general. The fact that you could find such a world existing behind the high walls of foreig...
Posted by on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 02:54:00 GMT |
San’aa |
So, now I'm in San'aa. San'aa is reputed to be one of the oldest cities in the world-- a claim also made by Damascus and Varanasi-- but with the oldest house in the city dating back over 2000 yea...
Posted by on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:01:00 GMT |
