Fiction

Religious Guidance

Radio personality Dr Laura Schlessinger is a chat show phenomenon, dispensing advice to the thousands of callers and millions of regular listeners to her show. She recently ran into controversy for her outspoken Biblically-based criticisms of homosexuality. The following open letter to Dr Laura appeared on the internet…
[Issue 35: March/April 2002]

Kant’s Day Off

A short story about the Sage of Königsberg by Heather Reyes.
[Issue 35: March/April 2002]

Feedback

A short story by F. Russell Clampitt about what happens when the hot water bottle goes cold.
[Issue 34: December 2001 / January 2002]

The Meaning of Life: A tribute to the late Douglas Adams

Did you feel a tiny bit frustrated when Douglas Adams told us in The Hitchhikers’ Guide To the Galaxy that the meaning of life was 42? Tim LeBon did and wondered what interplanetary wanderer Arthur Dent might have concluded if he’d met some real philosophers.
[Issue 33: September/October 2001]

Major Change

A short story by Michael Wreen, with apologies to Raymond Chandler.
[Issue 32: June/July 2001]

Living Light

A short story by Alistair Fruish.
[Issue 31: March/April 2001]

Phaedo

by Tim Chappell
[Issue 31: March/April 2001]

Elsewhere

by Tim Chappell
[Issue 31: March/April 2001]

The Big Question

Can the great philosophers of the past help us to answer the questions that really matter to us? A short story by Mark Noonan.
[Issue 30: December 2000 / January 2001]

Homes For All

A short story by Stephen Loveless-Rees.
[Issue 29: October/November 2000]

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