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Uncomfortable confession based around the events of a summer evening on a building job. This story contains strong language.
An unpleasant encounter with a local drunkard leads a boy's brothers to act to protect their mother. Contains strong language.
A portrait of a couple's post-divorce relationship as a lawyer visits his ex-wife and their two children.
A man is consumed by a completely irrational fear.
When little Juan Manuel defaces a neighbour's door the potential dispute escalates in a bizarre direction.
The narrator's entrance into the afterlife is used to frame a story highlighting the pitiful conditions of one girl's working life.
Fantasy, in the vein of Jean Auel, about a lost tribe who's future is threatened by the encroachment of modern man. Contains descriptions of violence.
A disturbing portrait of a man consumed by grief. Contains descriptions of violence.
An unusually religious Duke gets tired of petty party politics and replaces the members of the Houses of Parliament with Angels.
While on a voyage to a remote archipelago, the narrator is overcome by a premonition of evil. But the ship's captain pays no attention.
Goodman Brown keeps a midnight appointment in the woods near Salem Village.
There was always news, Antonio thought, as the announcer’s name started to boom out, and he was glad for that.
- Length: 13 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
Not for the first time, the solution came to him in the middle of the night
- Length: 11 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Genre: Fiction
There was something satisfying about spreading the grass evenly...
- Length: 10 pages
- Age Rating: 18
- Genre: Fiction
What dark resentments stir in the primitive brain of Frankenstein?
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.
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.
"It's at the ranch, on the other side of the farm, in those mountains. All we need to do is catch it. Can you imagine how much we can sell it for?
