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.

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

"That tree," he says. "It's looking at me."

"I love you, Martha, but you break things. You're breaking us."

There is a bleached skeleton that holds no marrow

People aren’t as good at dying as you might think.

“Hello, sir. How may I help you?”

The Rasite ship sprawled ten times the size of the little cruiser that Ambros had named Starlight

Snow fell steadily in the wild woods of Siberia...

But when their father was killed, the dynamic of their relationship changed...

What would you do if your family preferred a robot over 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

They said I sat on the bottom like an astronaut floating in space...