Movement in his peripheral vision caused Jack to look up from the monotony of his work emails, it looked like someone was moving in next door. Outside a forty-something man was unloading a set of kitchen chairs from the back of a truck. Behind it a larger delivery van was parking up and two men in overalls has jumped out. Distraction over, Jack looked back down to his monthly expense reports, inwa...

For Michael it was love at first sight. It was always love at first sight. He met June at a conference for work, she smiled politely and held out her hand to shake. The moment their fingers touched Michael felt electricity course through his body. He nearly let out a little involuntary sigh, but managed to clamp his mouth closed. She appeared unaffected as she maintained friendly eye contact, but ...

“It’s you! It’s really you!”

Brenda positively vibrated with excitement. Veronica Davis was sat right here in front of her, in HER coffee shop, drinking coffee. Just like a normal human.

The woman looked up, her eyes raising quizzically above her thick rimmed reading glasses. She gently placed her book down on the table and cross her hands in her lap.

“Hi. I’m surprised you recognised me, it’...

Mable stood and looked up at the tower, cocking her head at an angle to line up her vision to the slant of the tower. How did it even stand standing up at that angle. Looking at the path up ahead it was hard to believe the tower was even occupied, but the faint light in the window and thin tentacle of smoke trailing from the chimney spoke to its current occupation.

She started off down the windi...

Robert turned a corner in the garden. Ahead of him lay a path as far as the eye could see, right to the horizon. On either side of the path lay rectangular manicured bushes. Waist high, a literal wall of green. Wooden frames at at regular intervals, intertwined with vines who’s leaves hung down over the walkway. Together they creates a tunnel through which there was only one direction, forwards. A...

Martha stopped in her tracks as thunder rumbled it’s way into existence somewhere in the distance. She looked up at the sky through the patchwork of pine trees above her, hairs on her arms standing on end. She’d always loved thunder storms. The electricity, the primal power of them, she always felt most alive when exposed to the elements in this way. When you were in a storm nothing else mattered,...

Harold stared down at the cuts on his hands, numb to his surroundings. As he examined the multitude of cuts and scrapes that covered them he marvelled at his ability to do so. Just four hours ago the idea of him sitting outside in the street and his attention being on anything other than the crushing weight of the outside world on top of his head would have seemed an impossibility.

The day has s...

After a week of hiding in a cave Devan was miserable. He was even starting to question whether enslavement was better than this freedom. Of course it was too late now, if he went back he’d be killed. So he was committed, didn’t mean he had to like it though.

Service to the overlords was all he’d ever known. He’s been born into it, grown up in it and would soon be sent to the reproduction farm to...

When you think about purgatory you might imagine a waiting room. In my head it was always like the doctors, nice but very plain. White walls, uncomfortable chairs and maybe a stack of magazines. Purgatory isn’t supposed to be fun, right. You wait there, presumably bored out of your skull, until someone above or below, decides to accept you. I think I was expecting the same feeling as when I got my...

The day you’ve been dreading has finally arrived… I’m here.

You knew it was coming, you’ve always known, but you haven’t prepared yourself. Sometimes, when something is an inevitability, it’s easier to ignore. Possible to discount, minimise, to continue living your life in deliberate ignorance. But pretending something doesn’t exist doesn’t make it so.

But I’m here, I’m not going anywhere and ...