Photo Source: Pixabay I’ve been travelling in China for three months. Mesmerizing at first, the bright lights of Shanghai and Beijing soon lost their allure, so I elected to go off the beaten track and venture through rural Henan province instead. It’s a different world, the contrast stunning. Here, the people are simple, and their lives uncomplicated. They may have cellphones and satellite TV's, but compared to residents of the big cities they remain untouched by the march of progress....

Photo Source: Pixabay Like most life-changing events, nobody saw it coming. Least of all Josh. He never thought Adam would ever die. Well, deep down he knew. Everyone dies in the end, right? But the idea of Adam leaving this world through choice, because he wanted to, never entered his thinking. On reflection, maybe that was because he didn't want it to. They'd been best friends all their lives. Inseparable. Or at least as long as they both could remember. They were the same age,...