Wessel Ebersohn's Blog, page 5

A Lucerne Dessert

Towards the end of winter our ground dries out. It does not dry out a little. It dries until a handful of dirt, pouring through your fingers, has almost no substance. Water poured onto the earth soaks away in moments while the sun beats down without mercy and without pause.

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An Irrational Contest

The Chinese have worked hard at keeping their population growth even lower than more developed western countries.  Between 1980 and 2016 the Chinese one-child policy was stringently applied and its effect has been profound. That country’s population growth at the present time is still only 0.1% a year, the same

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Innovation Fatigue

I have been feeling a bit down lately, but then, I fancy, has most of humanity. I have wondered what ails me and found the answer in what is for me an unlikely place. It was explained to me by a writer in the Essential California newsletter. According to him,

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The Prison Doctor

The story of the Prison Doctor is inspired by real crime cases in which male long-term prison inmates seek to seduce female prison personnel. In most cases the sex is the minor attraction for them. The real aim is escape. Some have been successful. A few have gotten clear away,

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Little Miss Button

A few years ago Hollywood came up with a story they called The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, apparently based on a short story by F.Scott Fitzgerald. In the story when Benjamin is born, he is lined, wrinkled and grey, looking like an old man. But as the years pass

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The Prison Doctor: the Kidnapping

After years in the prison system Beloved Childe truly believes that all other prison personnel see the dangers posed by many of the inmates. And she is right in most cases. She knows that prison guards are simple men and they see the inmates the way enemy soldiers see prisoners

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Someone You Know

Editor, journalist, author and poet Jeremy Gordin was stabbed to death in his home by intruders who traded his life for his car and his television set. Those who knew him thought of him as worth a whole lot more than that. In a recent letter to his adult children

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A Web of Relationships

Magnuson, a ruthless killer, is faced with approaching death by lethal injection. Escape from Death Row is almost impossible. His only chance lies in Gillian Patterson, the new prison doctor. He can see her weakness, and plans to exploit it. It is clear that life has not been easy for

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An Introduction to The Prison Doctor

Everyone who has the task of hiring people sometimes makes mistakes. Prison authorities are no different. Hiring Gillian Patterson as a prison doctor was such a mistake. She came from two failed marriages, one to a good man who bored her, and the other to a rotten man who almost

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The Gathering

When Beloved Childe agrees to help a mother find her missing daughter she does not know what lies ahead and how complex the search will become. The web of lies and homicidal violence she enters only becomes clear when she is called in by government agents. They know of the

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