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A bored middle-aged adulterer picks up a young married woman little expecting the great love that will develop.
A woman marries a meek, scientifically minded doctor but can't help comparing him to her much-admired artistic friends.
A man rich enough to despise everything that money can buy goes out and tries to want something that he can't pay for.
Intended as a short companion for Stoker's 'Dracula' we join the narrator as he begins a coach trip on the mysterious 'Walpurgis' night.
A tough gang member wanted for murder meets a lady in a bar.
A bedraggled writer corners the editor of a respected publication and demands to know why his story has been rejected.
First-person account of a successful lawyer's sudden loss of memory and the resulting adventure.
When his wife's dog begins to shift the balance of power in their relationship, Mr Strudwarden resolves to take extreme measures.
Portrait of an old lady deeply affected by the death of her grandson.
When Katherine sails into a secluded bay she seems destined to meet a creative kindred spirit in blues musician Matt.
When his key breaks off on the inside of his apartment, the narrator must fight bureaucracy and apathy in increasingly desperate attempts to escape.
A man is the only witness to an accidental killing and the bizarre series of events that follow.
An older woman goes for a walk in the park.
A woman hears news of her husband's death.
Markeim arrives at an antique dealer's on Christmas day, ostensibly to buy a present for a lady. A tale of evil and its nature.
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.
