NORMANDY BEACHHEAD, June 16, 1944 – I took a walk along the historic coast of Normandy in the country of France. It was a lovely day for strolling along the seashore. Men were sleeping on the sand, some of them sleeping forever. Men were floating in the water, but they didn’t know they were in […] Read more

The Humane Society of the United States does not categorically oppose all uses of animals in current research as we work with others toward the day when animals will no longer be necessary as laboratory subjects. But we are dedicated to the alleviation of suffering, for animals and humans alike. We believe that our mission […] Read more

The Humane Society of the United States does not categorically oppose all uses of animals in current research as we work with others toward the day when animals will no longer be necessary as laboratory subjects. But we are dedicated to the alleviation of suffering, for animals and humans alike. We believe that our mission […] Read more

I do not claim that I can tell a story as it ought to be told. I only claim to know how a story ought to be told, for I have been almost daily in the company of the most expert story-tellers for many years. There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult […] Read more

In one of the last truly wild corners of southern Spain a secretive preditor defends it’s final stronghold. The misty mountains of Andulusia are home to the rarest wild cat on Earth, the Iberian Lynx. A cat that looks death in the face, on a daily basis. But can it cheat death and hang onto […] Read more

It was not that Omri didn’t appreciate Patrick’s birthday present to him. Far from it. He was really very grateful–sort of. It was, without a doubt, very kind of Patrick to give Omri anything at all, let alone a secondhand plastic Indian that he himself had finished with. The trouble was, though, that Omri was […] Read more

So ends the story of the strange and evil experience of the Invisible Man. And if you would learn more of him you must go to a little inn near Port Stowe and talk to the landlord. The sign of the inn is an empty board save for a hat and boots, and the name […] Read more

At the end of the 19th century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal and steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation’s burgeoning industrial prosperity. In the mountains above Johnstown, an old earth dam had been hastily rebuilt to create a lake for an exclusive summer resort patronized by the […] Read more

Memory’s so treacherous. One moment you’re lost in a carnival of delights, with poignant childhood aromas, the flashing neon of puberty, all that sentimental candy-floss … The next, it leads you somewhere you don’t want to go… …somewhere dark and cold, filled with the damp, ambiguous shapes of things you’d hoped were forgotten.. Memories can […] Read more