Maria was at the stage of her life where waking up was a pleasure. She woke up at the time was her please and bladder and hunger permitting was not compelled to prematurely abandon her bed sheets. To day had the added benefit of sunlight coming through the window and landing in a square shape around her pillow.

The silence that had reined was usurped by the high pitched wail of the cat, which ha...

The fork cut through the quiche unleashing a bubble of mayonnaise and sending four dry pastry crumble across the plate. A long flute glass of champion sat close to the paper plate. It was then that the clown was shot. I had heard the first shot rather than saw it, looking up to see blood bulging from the forehead of the clown. I was close enough to see chunks of make up break away from his brow to...

It was the movement of the clouds that gave the game away. The large open sky was covered in dark, grey, extremely slow moving clouds. In fact it would take several minutes close study for any observer to state with any certainty that they were moving at all. However in on sector of the sky, about 30 meters wide, the clouds moved from there steady crawl and started to zip across the gap at rapid s...

The papers were found in three bottles that had been sealed with cheap grey wax. This three bottles had been tide together with strong, which flapped loosely at either end.

Oliva nearly hadn’t walked this far down the beech. The clouds were turning an ominous black and that had kept Oliva walking. She had never seen heavy rain hit the sea and hadn’t minded the idea of getting wet. Even after she...

The concrete veranda jutted out above the river. It was here on a late summer evening in July that Andrew had last seen his brother. The had been sitting, with their feet just above the water. Tom had been kick his feet across the water, his old grey boots seeming to skim across the water and back again, until they slammed into the concrete that made up the dock wall. They’d had drinks then, cheap...