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A man notices a small wart on his left hand.
A chance meeting brings back memories of a difficult childhood.
Late one night, a mysterious man witnesses the strangely silent movement of a large army.
On the rugged Brittany coast, thirty-eight skulls are found buried.
- Length: 49 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Horror
Lady Barbara is charged with finding a suitably new and tasteful method for greeting the head of state of a small Euopean princedom.
Classic fable. Moral: There is no believing a liar, even when he speaks the truth.
An unsually wet ghost soaks the master of Harrowby Hall every Christmas eve.
It was his underneath place, the place where he came to bury his jars.
- Length: 13 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Genre: Horror
Twisted coming of age tale. A young boy is persecuted by his brothers, sister and ungrateful father. Contains adult language.
The Baroness gives Elinor Rapsley some advice on dealing with her troublesome garden.
A game of Scrabble has serious consequences.
A semi-barbaric king devises a semi-barabaric (but entirely fair) method of criminal trial involving two doors, a beautiful lady and a very hungry tiger.
Yesterday’s air sucked out, tidied and smoothed for re-use.
But in my head that summer before we moved into the town was yellow and purple and red and supremely happy
Truda paused at the gate and tried to calm her racing heart.
He sat on the bench. Their bench. And watched the birds. And remembered.
She said she was crying tears of happiness. That’s when I learnt that happiness could make you cry too.
It was Christmas the first time they made love; he said it felt like coming home
You have to play the cards you're dealt
How many people who turn on a light understand the generation of electricity?
- Length: 12 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Genre: Fiction
