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A forty-something wife and mother toys with the idea of having an affair.
Morality tale based on an elderly uncle's promise of his fortune to a thrifty couple.
Boredom leads a rector into temptation following his move to a country parish.
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.
A portrait of a couple's post-divorce relationship as a lawyer visits his ex-wife and their two children.
There was something satisfying about spreading the grass evenly...
- Length: 10 pages
- Age Rating: 18
- Genre: Fiction
Gang violence against the backdrop of a distant war
Two low-lives from the west go to New York with plans to relieve the fool inhabitants of their cash.
A man has a day out with the young son of a woman he is seeing.
A gentleman moves into a reputedly haunted country house; soon the servants are scared witless but the master is not convinced. Plays with different attitudes to paranormal activity.
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.
It was Christmas the first time they made love; he said it felt like coming home
She said she was crying tears of happiness. That’s when I learnt that happiness could make you cry too.
