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...being the bouncer is a lot like being the designated driver at a raging house party...
A glimpse of the meth epidemic in Oklahoma.
The narrator describes what he remembers of his beautiful, intelligent wife, Ligeia.
Just before his death, Adrian Borlsover develops the power of automatic writing, which creates some unexpected issues for one of his heirs.
Grady drives out into the desert in search of gold.
One summer Mickey and his best friend decide to grow a lizard
Size isn’t everything, but it can mean life or death when Matthew and Liz come to town.
What is art? And who decides? The artist or the critic?
Inside every gentle, affable guy - and nation - there is a raging beast.
J.L. sees her dad at the Old Soldier's Parade.
A love story in two voices: Martin Green, an English teacher in China in the 1980s, and MingMing, his young Chinese 'minder'
When Helen decides to buy a computer, she finds herself with a new acquaintance, Arsenius Jackson.
Reading lessons prove unexpectedly beneficial for a cook and the retirement home where she works. A mouth-watering tale of fine food and personal developement.
A forty-something wife and mother toys with the idea of having an affair.
A student rents an apartment that looks onto the meticulously kept garden of the strange Dr Rappaccini and his beautiful daughter.
A game of Scrabble has serious consequences.
“Go to Goldman’s Greenhouses. Joseph … will start you … at a buck sixty an hour.” His lungs empty of smoke, “Go talk to him. He’s your uncle. He’ll hire you.
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.
My mum is the undisputed tea-drinking heavyweight champion of the world… or at least the whole of South Lexington Avenue.
Shepherd's family made money by being outlaws. Well, outlaws in the governments' eyes.
"Damn thing," old Ernie muttered, glancing up from his laptop. He reached out to shut off the annoying noise but noticed the call was from his area. This was unusual.
The cozy brick bungalow stood on a short lane of similarly modest houses with a small, mostly overgrown park at the far end and an intersection leading to Darlington High Street.
The spark of his life was fading, but his mind was still sharp, and his memories cocooned him.
Olly Rice had given his life to literature, but what had literature given him? A wound in the head that oozed something worse than blood or brain matter.
Dessie O'Connell was 6 feet 3, thick of bone, and naturally muscular. Unlike almost all of the actors with whom he'd first competed for parts, he hardly needed to work out in order to resemble a Hellenic god.
