Articles by Mark Ellott

My thanks to my sister Sharon for the idea that set this story in motion.   Thailand. Hannah Ramsey made her way gingerly forward in […]

Chicxulub, late Cretaceous, sixty-five million years ago. Triceratops lifted his great horned head and paused from his munching. Chewing the foliage in his mouth, he […]

The manuscript is now complete. The Covid-19 lock-down proved to be something of a bonus for my writing as the enforced idleness gave me time […]

Death was bored. It was Easter Sunday and he had a few hours to kill and no appointments in his diary, so he went to […]

Mexico, 1889. The riders came on Palm Sunday. As was usual for the celebrations, we had a procession to the church. We were all carrying […]

“You’ve missed a bit.” I slopped some emotional paint over the offending patch and paused. Well, it brings tears to my eyes. We’d decided on […]

The bar was crowded with cowhands in from the drive. Smoke hung in the air. Piano music jangled on the eardrums and whores plied their […]

It was a new moon when they came, that June night in 1631. The tide was in and the waves could be heard lapping gently […]

Twisted Creek 1868 Dawn cast a steely grey light across the river. Thin layers of mist hovered above the still water gently folded over on […]

Pascale Hervé stepped off the motorcycle and walked up to the police crime scene tape. A uniformed officer barred her way. “Sergeant Patrice Laurent is […]