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An unsually wet ghost soaks the master of Harrowby Hall every Christmas eve.
In the town of Blackburg - home of raining frogs, crimson snow and Hettie Parlow's ghost - a young tramp stands on a street corner in the rain.
Bobby Osgood woke up one October morning and he was twelve years old again...
Baggio discovers that becoming a philosopher isn’t as simple as he thought.
Mary Boyne and her husband, requiring a country home in England after a business windfall, acquire a reputedly haunted house.
A make-up artist has a revealing temporary job.
The day before the big race and those gathered for Lady Susan's house-party are keen that their money be on the right horse.
A hard-up young man receives a timely invitation to visit a mysterious, wealthy cousin at his country retreat - a bizzare menagerie of birds, reptiles and a man-eating black puma.
A forty-something wife and mother toys with the idea of having an affair.
Your first worry was that it was something to do with spiders.
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.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
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
"I love you, Martha, but you break things. You're breaking us."
