http://slow.writerscafe.org/wbanderson The original writings of author W. Braid Anderson en-us Copyright 2026 WritersCafe.org 1775995355 WritersCafe.org RSS Generator 15 Written in Kelantan Malaysia, where I was living in a small kampong house. Having rented out my nice house in Johor Baru, and living on that rent. The rest of my money had gone into my wife's Singapore account to pay for her treatment while in coma. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/wbanderson/308147/ Flag McAndrew's wife Diana has the 'second sight' and is also becoming increasingly schitzophrenic. Several times she has tried to kill Flag, and is now a voluntary patient in a mental home. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/wbanderson/303381/ While on board a Singapore registered drilling ship in Malaysian territorial waters, I and 6 other Europeans were 'arrested' by 2 Indonesian patrol boats. This is taken from the diary I kept in jail, where I was on hunger strike for 3 months. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/wbanderson/302447/ Flag has been thrown out of college for non-payment of fees. He has just landed himself a job as a conductor on a Glasgow Corporation double deck bus. Can't wait to tell his girlfriend. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/wbanderson/302440/ Just a piece of dialogue. Flag is senior cadet on the oceangoing tanker 'Forth Venturer'. Big John is the Third Mate, and Flag has been dreaming on watch again. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/wbanderson/302320/ An engineer meets up with an angry rhino in Sumatra http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/wbanderson/301431/ A load of old rubbish, written in a cheap Thai hotel room, when the words of the Great Novel wouldn't sort themselves out. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/wbanderson/281785/ At Stormhill Hospital Glasgow in 1959 Sister McConochie is generally seen as an old battleaxe. This is her real story. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/wbanderson/281778/ Stormhill Hospital, Glasgow 1959. Sister McConochie takes over Emergency. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/wbanderson/281776/ Flag McAndrew is on his way back from army leave in 1960. On board the train from the north of Scotland h has a rising fever. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/wbanderson/281771/ Cadet Inglis McAndrew is ashore in Germany, March 1958. From Book 1 of the 'Flag McAndrew' series. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/wbanderson/243202/ This is a true story, written while I lived in a kampong (village) house in Kelantan, the strictest Moslem State in Malaysia. Nobody in the kampong spoke English, but I already spoke some Malay, and improved quickly. My little house had no glass in the wi http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/wbanderson/212795/ It's Glasgow, december 1959. Flag McAndrew has been tossed out of college - no money left for fees - and has got himself a job as a trainee bus conductor on a Glasgow Cororation double decker bus. Hugh is his instrucor. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/wbanderson/212766/