David E. Cooper

An elderly and infirm rich man's wife joins her lover in Paris - with unforeseen results

An elderly man's relationship with his old leather belt takes a strange turn

A husband and a wife each decide to contract a hitman to kill the other - with unexpected results.

A man becomes increasingly averse to various sounds, with problematic results.

A man is shot at a village cricket match. The police are sure the wrong man was killed.

Colleagues try to retrieve a typescript after its author suffers a stroke - with unexpected results.

An old and ill Buddhist monk is reunited with the dog that once saved his life.

An author staying in NW Scotland finds inspiration in an old man and his dog, each a victim of war.

After a traffic accident, a retired postal worker finds that he is able to speak only a private language that he had invented for himself.

An ill woman revisits the place she spent happy years with two dogs

A rich Englishman decides to spend his life wandering around Sri Lanka in order, he believes, to live in accordance with the Buddha's teachings.

An ex-pat barber living in Gozo tries to become a living resolution of a famous paradox.