- Christopher Whitby
- Bashir Sakhawarz
- Martin Westlake
- George Sandison
- Bashir Sakhawarz
- Martin Westlake
- George Sandison
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Your thoughts trek to all the points of the compass, but still that twist eludes you
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: 15
Not for the first time, the solution came to him in the middle of the night
- Length: 11 pages
- Age Rating: 15
I am looking at something I thought mine alone...a beech leaf, brittle and brown now.
- Length: 10 pages
- Age Rating: PG
"I love you, Martha, but you break things. You're breaking us."
But in my head that summer before we moved into the town was yellow and purple and red and supremely happy
The Rasite ship sprawled ten times the size of the little cruiser that Ambros had named Starlight
- Length: 13 pages
- Age Rating: PG
. 'Do you think he's sometimes too perfect?' she said quietly.
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: U
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
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
"I love you, Martha, but you break things. You're breaking us."
You have to play the cards you're dealt
She said she was crying tears of happiness. That’s when I learnt that happiness could make you cry too.
- Length: 9 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
But when their father was killed, the dynamic of their relationship changed...
