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.

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?

I woke to the sound of something creaking on the porch...

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

Death came around once a month...

When the ugly girl decides to find herself a husband she has no idea what she’s letting herself in for.

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

Just cuz a crustacean can talk don't make him magic! A children's story for adults.

Jon Roxton was born lucky, or so he told himself...

For stories feed on stories...

Planes, hotel rooms, toilet cubicles off quiet corridors. These are the sliver-thin places where he finds a little time...

Kerryn watched as the lotus bud took shape...

Suddenly red ink flows from my pen. Startled, I assume it is blood, but then realize it is the color of the moon...

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

We are there, we are ready...And then we sing.

Jeannette treasured the moment when television sets died, computers shut down, and refrigerators stopped refrigerating...

"Right," said Julia, all of a sudden, "You're on your own now..."