Jasper started the day as usual with a mug of steaming hot coffee to wake himself up. While his was waiting for the coffee to kick in he busied himself with opening a tin of cat food for Micah. As he turned round to put the food in his bowl he stopped, noticing that Micah hadn’t touched his dinner from the night before. Something was very wrong! Usually Micah would be all over Jasper when he heard...

"This condition is fairly rare and as such we cannot say with 100% certainty what the symptoms will be or even how much time you haven’t left."

The doctor's words made my head spin. He was basically saying that at any point I could just drop dead. I had been ill for the last several years and, sure, I was glad to finally have a name for my condition (even though I couldn’t actually pronounce it)bu...

"So, what you’re saying is that a wizard told you to rob the bank."

"No, of course not. That would be ridiculous. No

a wizard told me he could make me invisible."

"Yes, of course, how stupid of me." The man interviewing me smirked as he walked out the room.

I pressed my face into my hands. Why had I just said that. If I wasn’t going to a psychiatric unit before I was now.

I was moved into a cell...

It looked exactly like Nathan apart from the mole just under his left eye. He had always said that he wanted to get it surgically removed, I thought that was a bit extreme, it was a tiny thing. It was something you wouldn’t have noticed but I did because I saw it every day since we had started school together.

“Who are you and where’s Nathan?" I asked, my voice trembling.

Whoever, whatever this i...

I had always loved you. I will always remember you as you were. As an angel. In my memories you will stand in the playground, aged 9, laughing. The lovely tinkling sound filling the air. It reminded me of the wind chime outside our house. You were standing in front of the sun looking like a goddess ringed in sunlight with your golden hair and amber eyes.

I loved you but never told you. And now y...

Penniless after coming out of prison, Christi had nowhere to go. Her family didn’t want to know her and the same could be said for all her old friends. London seemed as good a place as any for a new start as any. She boarded the train bound for London from Waverley. She found a seat in the crowded carriage , sitting down and watching the outskirts of Edinburgh speed past the window .

She dozed fo...