I feel the laboured contractions of your heart, pounding to maintain my mirrored beat, as you toil to grow me in time

Grandma Mason had taken guardianship of Joey after his parents perished in an unspeakable tragedy earlier that year. Joey had been devastated by the loss of his parents and came to rely heavily on his grandma.

He steals with swift, simple hands in the yellow Roman sun. The crowds are bulging, swollen, and he bobs amongst them as silent as a jellyfish.

'The only thing I ever got off my old man was a birthday card when I was ten.'

Stephen tells me the wrinkles methodology is a hoax...

A trip to the country, supposedly for a rest, lead Holmes into a mystery involving an apparently random burglary and the murder of a coachman.

A reputable doctor comes to Holmes for advice when a mysterious benefactor, resident at his clinic, becomes paranoid about the security of the clinic building.

I get this a lot. People get embarrassed talking about the supernatural. I expect people from his world, with their neatly trimmed front lawns and house prices, to worry about making fools of themselves.

Ah, the human race. If we aren’t tired of the tried and tested ways of hurting one another, we’ll invent some more just for the sheer hell of it.

When lady Carlotta is mistaken for the Quabarl's new governess, she takes it as an opportunity to try out a few of her own teaching methods.

The story of a young mermaid who falls in love with a prince from above the waves.

Socialist principles come in conflict with the demands of high society.

European-flavoured tale of the mysterious, rotund Gudrun Schmidt von Feldenstein and her Mexican winters. Contains adult material.

A married couple return to the groom's home town to start their life together - but his position as town marshal complicates matters.

In the midst of a fearsome storm, a sceptic is confronted by a passionate salesman.