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.

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

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

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

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

The famous lexical semanticist Professor Edgar Nettleston had been found dead, a gunshot wound to the head.

You have to play the cards you're dealt

How many people who turn on a light understand the generation of electricity?

For my fifteenth birthday, Granddad took me to Brown’s.

A long way overhead a jet soared, like a gull on currents of air.

It was as if she had stepped into another world.

Her notes were played as the light dance steps of lovers...

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