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.

But in my head that summer before we moved into the town was yellow and purple and red and supremely happy

Yesterday’s air sucked out, tidied and smoothed for re-use.

He sat on the bench. Their bench. And watched the birds. And remembered.

Truda paused at the gate and tried to calm her racing heart.

He dances maida maida, like a butterfly around the candle.

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

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

You have to play the cards you're dealt

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

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

“Hello, sir. How may I help you?”

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

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

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

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

What would you do if your family preferred a robot over you?

Bobby Osgood woke up one October morning and he was twelve years old again...