Taking a jar labelled ‘Local Honey’ from the carefully balanced glass pyramid, I put it in my basket […]
Short stories
Beneath a sluiced sky as empty as I try to keep my mind, the insects find me. I […]
‘Computing next – bloody waste of time.’ Becky exhales, smoke coming out of her nostrils as well as […]
The babble in the room reaches a crescendo, like a pan of boiling milk, then simmers down to […]
The sun is shining relentlessly as I chase my two across the sand for what must be the […]
The policeman smiled. He’d just taken the cuffs off her and he let them swing from his index […]
It’s been tough having to watch my community suffer through the Covid-19 pandemic, and I’ve spent months trying […]
Today we’re making greengage jam – a wonderful fruit, the taste of which immediately transports one back to […]
My eyes are open, but everything is black. Ouch, I shouldn’t have tried to sit up. Was that […]
YELLOW 334 – ‘Ah – not a winner I’m afraid, love’. The accident has put Mary in hospital. […]
‘I want a cucumber sandwich,’ Michelle said on the ride back to the Hunt Home. Nothing had been […]
What sort of woman wears stuff like this? Alone in her hotel room, twenty-two-year-old Jess squints at triangles […]
‘Seven in a row,’ she read. ‘Seven nights in a row,’ it said. ‘Surprise him! It will bring […]
I’d never noticed the golden door before, but that night, as I was leaving the club, I spotted […]