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At night, while travelling down a dark ravine road, a man bumps into the unsettling Dr Dorrimore.
Wistful story about communication in a relationship.
Lady Prowche has trouble putting together a guest list that will ensure her house party is argument-free.
The story of the Filipino wife of a misogynistic soldier.
An Irish traveller leaves his clan and tries to make it in Dublin. Contains strong language.
A man sets out to uncover the secrets of the strange natural phenomenon that is the Maelstrom vortex.
"That tree," he says. "It's looking at me."
A witty dinner conversation in which Clovis decides it is time his mother thought about getting married.
An unusually religious Duke gets tired of petty party politics and replaces the members of the Houses of Parliament with Angels.
A change of life leads to disaster
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.
“It’s always the same to begin with,” I said. “I’m on the beach. The sand is hot, the sun is bearing down. It makes the sand look white, like snow.”
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Genre: Fiction
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.
He dances maida maida, like a butterfly around the candle.
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
