These stories are in general an attempt to recapture and encapsulate aspects of a distant past that will soon have faded for ever Tiny scenes, events, memories, are brought back in the form of a reality that has, through the workings of time, become fictionalized. Who now knows what the reality actually was? Contents: Sporting Notes -- A Simple Question -- Martial Arts - The Art of the Short Story -- Hatches. Matches and Despatches - The Beginning of an End -- Lines of Communication -- A Morning in Northern Ireland - Irish Postman -- Achilles Heel -- A Deeply Objective Fairy Tale -- Secret Sharer - Safe Distance -- A Bit on the Side -- Temps Perdu-- Eternal Triangle.
