• The Cirrhosis Society.

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    Nigel’s face was pockmarked and ashen. Yellowed with sickness and decay. You could see in his eyes that he never stood a chance. That he was never going to make it. When he died there was a sense of inevitability, perhaps relief, about it all. Somewhere beneath the purple blotchiness of Toni’s face, beneath the

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  • Short Story: Cabin Fever

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    JULY They’re in my street, filming my home, which I guess was inevitable. The first thing I notice though is the grass. It’s all yellow and dry and it makes the house look pale. I’m surprised at how quickly it’s deteriorated. When I lived there I made sure the lawn was green. The same as

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  • The coming of age of the climate change debate?

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    Communicating climate change has never been easy. Scientific observations of gaping holes in the ozone layer, melting polar ice-caps, increasing global temperatures, extreme weather conditions, coral bleaching, species extinction … all may command the news headlines for a brief dramatic instant, but the strange fact remains that, on the whole, dire warnings as to the

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