Czechoslovak born Jozef Imrich is dead and living in Australia

You won't have a clue who Bessie was,
and there's no reason you should. Yet Bessie has
her own niche in the political history of the Iron
Curtain. She is the only dog to receive a Political Asylumn.


For the first time in history, electronic publishers can offer readers an opportunity to hear voices from the margins at a speed of light. In electronic publishing, the unexpected happens all the time, and my story is a good example.

We hear often of the sweeping developments that take place across the world. Cold Wars, Hot Wars, economic booms and busts, the rapacious scramble for resources: we hear the warnings of countries, the shouts of other countries in greedy triumph. We rarely see the ways in which these changes impact mere individuals.

My small personal voice dreamed and dreamed about telling a story. All dreamers are, however, aware of Gumperson law of corollary. Gumperson put my dreams to tell my story together in his now famous law which runs like this: "The probability of something happening is in inverse proportion to its desirability."


I am a Stranger Here