The Albion Kiss.
Southwest England, 1943. I want to kill my husband. It’s not entirely his fault; we’ve been stuck in this cold, claustrophobic house together for too long now. Trapped by the remoteness of the endless fields that make up our farm, the rolling hills beyond acting as mighty walls. Our only neighbour is a nosey woman in a cottage on the opposite side of the distant road. I can’t breathe. Nothing exciting ever happens here. Well, except for that Luftwaffe plane crash a little while ago. There was a big search for the pilot by all the locals, but he was never found.
Peter SperingPublished 5 months ago in Fiction
The Trial of the Century: The Murder Which Rocked Chicago.
Pictured above is a 27-year old Nathan Leopold, a man who formed half of the duo that killed a teenage boy. Born in the winter of 1904, Nathan was dubbed a child prodigy the moment his first words passed his lips at just four months old. As he got older, he became fluent in five languages and by the time he was nineteen, he graduated from the University of Chicago with Phi Beta Kappa honours — the pinnacle of academic honours in the United States. On top of that, he achieved recognition in the field of ornithology.
Peter SperingPublished 5 months ago in CriminalThe Heart of the Paradox
"There are three things you need to survive in this world; food, water and a twelve bore shotgun." Looking out onto a barren street, an old woman stood at the grimy window of her musty living room, arms folded tightly. She brushed a few stray white hairs behind her ear with spindly fingers and straightened out her tattered floral dress, before making her way over to the nearest armchair.
Peter SperingPublished 5 months ago in FictionFood for Thought...
For some people, the kitchen is little more than a showpiece. Glossy white acrylic cabinets and black quartz worktops with nary a scratch. Then there are others, like myself, for whom the kitchen is a place of function over form, a hub that serves as both a breeding ground for creativity as well as a place of meditation.
Peter SperingPublished 6 months ago in Feast
Kim Dadou: One Woman's Battle Against the World.
On December 17, 1991 in Rochester, New York, she was arrested after her partner’s frozen body was found in a collapsed snowbank.
Peter SperingPublished 6 months ago in Criminal
A Prodigy, Stifled.
William James Sidis. Born to Boris and Sarah Sidis in 1898, William’s fate was perhaps written for him before he was even born. His Ukrainian parents were intellectual refugees who’d fled to the USA to escape political persecution; they were Jewish, so they were vulnerable to the pogroms. They were truly a power couple of the day — Boris was an eminent psychologist who attained four degrees from Harvard and would become known for his pioneering work in the realms of hypnosis and psychopathology. His mother was one of the few women of the time to attain a medical degree and be a practising doctor.
Peter SperingPublished 6 months ago in Education
The American Dream... on Steroids!
There was once a boy called Zhu Yuanzhang... He was to the world at large, just another poor boy. One lost amongst the countless other peasant farmers growing an existence on rented land in fourteenth century China.
Peter SperingPublished 6 months ago in FYI
When Kids Kill: A Tale of Two Ten-Year Old Murderers.
On the 12th February 1993, these two boys led a two-year-old toddler named James Bulger away from his mum, who’d momentarily taken her eyes off him, and out of the shopping centre where they were. The boys had been skipping school that day, and before they kidnapped Bulger, had been thieving from shops and purposefully looking for a target.
Peter SperingPublished 6 months ago in Criminal
