“You look like....” he said slowly.
Half an hour earlier he had been driving along the motorway, thinking about the meeting he had just been to. It had been crap and bollocks, and he was feeling so frustrated.
“Shit on stick” he bellowed to no one and bashed the steering wheel a couple of times. How was he going to build this damn business if nobody was interested. Then the usual happened, he s...
The girl was brought in on Wednesday night. She’d been found wandering along the main road in her pyjamas and slippers. A passerby had stopped to help her but the girl was not cooperative so the police were called. She was small and skinny, with long dark hair and very pale skin. She didn’t look over 16.
Jason was at work that night in the A & E department and spoke to the paramedics who brough...
The old woman gazes up at the tower at the top and smiles serenely to herself, she was almost there! Almost home. She hadn’t been here for hundreds of years but now the time had come. She took in a deep breath in, let it out slowly and continued on her way.
As she climbed up and up, she thought about her life. It had been a good life, a fulfilling life, but a lonely one too. She had met many, ma...
I told her it was me
I told her I was there
I told her I was sorry
I told her I didn’t mean it
I told her I couldn’t help it
I told her I was sorry
She wanted to know why
She wanted to know how
She wanted to know when
She wanted to know the details
She wanted to know the reasons
She wanted to know how I could’ve
I told her I didn’t know
I told her I don’t remember
I told her I was sorry...
I grab my sister’s hand and pull her towards the cliff edge with me. She nods slowly in my direction. Then we jump.
I jolt myself awake and lie there, my heart pounding out of my chest and wonder why I keep having that dream. I make a promise to myself that I will phone her today just to make sure she is ok.
My sister and I have a strange relationship. She is a lovely, lovely person, but sh...
It stretches for miles, on and on,brown, green and purple. The undulations indicated by shadows distorting the landscape. High above a bird of prey makes it’s call, the only sound other than the whispering of a warm breeze through the heather. It is calm right now, peaceful in the sun light. When that changes it quickly becomes wild and terrifying, lonely and desolate, a place that is to be avoide...
It was never the same again. There had been promises and plenty of hope, but it didn’t help, it didn’t stop. The losses kept rising, and they still are twenty years later. Jamie stood in her kitchen nursing her last coffee for this week. She’d been so looking forward to it, dreaming about it, imagining the rich smell and taste. She wouldn’t get another delivery of groceries for 2 weeks. She hardl...
The first time I learnt how to do magic WOULD have been incredible if it had actually happened. I tried, I really did. I had geared myself up for this day, I learnt all the methods, knew all the incantations off by heart, there was nothing I didn’t know about magic...except how to do it. The worst bit, the really upsetting bit, was the disappointment and worry in my parents eyes. Of course they s...
It started badly. First, she couldn’t find her front door keys, why were they not in her bag, like always? Then as she bent down to put her shoes on she heard a rip. Trousers ruined, nothing else ironed. Then of course, delays on the tube. She sat on the platform already telling herself this was a right royal fuck up. He probably won’t even wait, or he’ll see her and suddenly have an emergency to...
“Concentrate, concentrate, concentrate” she told herself quietly, staring at the computer screen. But she was struggling. She knew it was in her bag, sitting there, wrapped in tinfoil, calling to her. She should never have brought it with her. What was she thinking? She knew she couldn’t resist it. This was ridiculous!
Ever since she found out she was pregnant she’d had cravings, sausages, bacon,...