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Bread and cheese in Paris

    MARTINA NICOLLS Website Martinasblogs Publications Facebook Paris Website Animal Website SUBSCRIBE TO MARTINA NICOLLS FOR NEWS AND UPDATES    MARTINA NICOLLS  is an international aid and development consultant, and the  author   of:  The Paris Residences of James Joyce   (2020), Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

Poppies in Paris

    MARTINA NICOLLS Website Martinasblogs Publications Facebook Paris Website Animal Website SUBSCRIBE TO MARTINA NICOLLS FOR NEWS AND UPDATES    MARTINA NICOLLS  is an international aid and development consultant, and the  author   of:  The Paris Residences of James Joyce   (2020), Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

The Intergalactic Interloper by Delas Heras: book review

The Intergalactic Interloper (2020) is set in New York City in 1995.    An alien vessel lands on the roof of a New York building in the shape of a water tower. In the command chair sits a turtle-like creature with two heads. It has scaly skin, four yellow eyes, four arms, and two long antennae protruding from its bald skulls.    The extraterrestrial’s name is AxzleProva: Axzle is the male head and Prova is the female head. AxzleProva is cautious, venturing out of its space ship only at night to do its job for the Amalgamation: to identify intelligent life on planet Earth, according to specific criteria.    Ollie works in a bookstore and is a musician, a guitarist, living in his tiny New York studio. He hears something crashing down onto the rooftop. In a panic, he searches for his cat Pirate.   It was regrettable that AxzleProva had been ‘conspicuously visible to that human male [Ollie] for a brief moment.’ Ollie, on the other hand, was trying to make sense of what he had just seen. 

Tulips and Snowflakes

  MARTINA NICOLLS Website Martinasblogs Publications Facebook Paris Website Animal Website SUBSCRIBE TO MARTINA NICOLLS FOR NEWS AND UPDATES    MARTINA NICOLLS  is an international aid and development consultant, and the  author   of:  The Paris Residences of James Joyce   (2020), Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

Sunday Walk: around the garden

MARTINA NICOLLS Website Martinasblogs Publications Facebook Paris Website Animal Website SUBSCRIBE TO MARTINA NICOLLS FOR NEWS AND UPDATES    MARTINA NICOLLS  is an international aid and development consultant, and the  author   of:  The Paris Residences of James Joyce   (2020), Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).