This is the short story I submitted to the Bridport Prize back in May and I can finally publish it here. I hope you enjoy it! It meant a lot to me to finish this and submitting it to a prize and even though I didn’t win, I finished it and now you can read it!
Morning had broken a few hours before as a figure approached his store. Tall, black hair, fair skin, light coloured clothes. That’s all he could make out without his glasses. The door was pushed into the store causing the bell to ring. That was his cue to put the glasses on.
Good morning. He announced. Good morning. The customer replied. The fuzziness gone, the figure was now a man in his late twenties. What will it be for you today, boy? The customer sniggered. No matter how many years he’d been a customer, the old man still called him boy, since the time he’d actually been a boy of twelve when the shop had opened. The same applied to the old man who was not really old. He couldn’t even be fifty. The boy had just always reciprocated that way, as did most everyone from the area.
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This is the article I wrote that got me the opportunity to chair in LIMUN (largest European MUN) and got published in my university’s newspaper!
When it comes to environmental infrastructural development there are, in recent history, two big counter arguments. On the one side, oil seems to be cheaper and a much more reliable resource. On the other, environmental infrastructure is much more expensive and right now less efficient than it will be a year from now.
There’s a system that the UEFA has in place to calculate the best footballing countries in Europe and allocate places in the European leagues to reflect how good they are. In simple terms, this score is all the points every single team representing a country in Europe gathers divided by the number of teams representing that country. The scores of the last five years added give the final ranking score. How exactly the numbers work isn’t as important in this context, the importance here will be set on the ‘battles’ that will be fought. Continue reading »
It’s been two months since I’ve used this medium to say, so here goes nothing: let’s move on to the letter G.
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How had it come to a two-way bullfight between Tim, the bull and me? I mean it’s not a bull, it’s just some electrical current we have to go against, but that just means it’s faster. We called it a bullfight out of habit. Comes from a time before me anyway and I never thought to ask. It’s true that it shouldn’t kill us, since we helped make it, but this current had the sweat of all of us, it was damn powerful. It was what powered the city!
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This post is a response to SciShow’s video about Solar Power on Youtube.
I’d like to start off by saying that I did enjoy the video, and that it is well done in the education and entertainment value, but there are some gaping problems in it in my view. Furthermore, just like in the video, I will be addressing only the Solar part, but that is only a section of all what renewable energies are and will be.
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I wanted to write a proper review on Arctic Monkeys new album “Suck it and See”, but then again what kind of authority am I on the subject? So instead of going on any kind of musical dance, I’ll be brief. It’s different to everything they’ve had up to now and in some ways that makes it so much better. They are utterly
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There are two things that are generally very hard to admit for most people. Firstly, that we really don’t know anything and secondly that luck plays a bigger part in our life than we attribute to it. Just look back at the last time you lost a bet, for example if I bet that my team will win, and they do I’d probably say “I knew they’d win, because…”, but
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Imagine sitting in a restaurant at 450 metres altitude with the Atlantic Ocean straight ahead of you. Or Imagine watching something in the cinema and then going down an elevator for 400 metres. Well Hofman Dujardin Architects are done imagining,
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In the episode “Home Wreckers” of How I Met Your Mother the character Barney Stinson tells a couple of very convincing stories – both of them conversations he had with two different women – and finishes both of them with the woman saying “your penis is enormous” taking all the credibility from his words because of it. I feel like that happens a lot, an interview with
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