- Louisa Campbell
- Martin Westlake
- Christian X. Ferdinandus
- Bashir Sakhawarz
- Martin Westlake
- Christian X. Ferdinandus
- Bashir Sakhawarz
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There was something satisfying about spreading the grass evenly...
- Length: 10 pages
- Age Rating: 18
Once again I cursed to myself the idea of having planned this writing course
When he was only six years old his mother sent him to the mosque to learn the Quran
Her notes were played as the light dance steps of lovers...
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: PG
It was as if she had stepped into another world.
The tree stood at ten, maybe twelve feet tall, but as far as the boy was concerned, it might as well have reached the grainy, spring sky.
It was his underneath place, the place where he came to bury his jars.
- Length: 13 pages
- Age Rating: 15
It was then, as he was just about to bring his hands flutteringly down, that the most extraordinary smell assailed my nostrils
How many people who turn on a light understand the generation of electricity?
- Length: 12 pages
- Age Rating: 15
A long way overhead a jet soared, like a gull on currents of air.
For my fifteenth birthday, Granddad took me to Brown’s.
What dark resentments stir in the primitive brain of Frankenstein?
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.
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.
- Length: 9 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
But when their father was killed, the dynamic of their relationship changed...
Snow fell steadily in the wild woods of Siberia...
“Hello, sir. How may I help you?”
It being the last Thursday of the month, the greatest witch in Ireland had gone to the hairdressers and would not return for another hour
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: U
- Genre: Children
They said I sat on the bottom like an astronaut floating in space...
