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Your first worry was that it was something to do with spiders.
Quince sells death. No wonder he likes his job.
Upper and working class collide as young Laura's family throw a lavish garden party.
A renegade experimental psycologist explains how to inflict his methods on the general public.
A boy helps out 'the deaf kid' who is being picked on by the orphanage bullies.
Tender portrait of a man known as Wing Biddlebaum who's hands have played a particularly significant role in his life.
A fisherman accidently captures and falls in love with a mermaid but must make a sacrifice to be with her. A fairytale, reminiscent of The Little Mermaid, parodying usual divisions between body and soul.
A romantic nightingale comes to the aid of a lovesick student who has a single day to find a red rose.
A vivid memory of an incident from the life of an orphanage child.
A young boy's attempt to model himself on Elvis highlights the realities of life in an orphange.
The adventures of a tiny girl who is found inside the petals of a Tulip.
When Loona Bimberton pulls off a coup with her celebrated 'Algerian aviator', Mrs Packletide feels compelled to respond.
As a hideous pestilence sweeps his lands, Prince Prospero seals himself in his castle and prepares a fabulous party.
A modern fairy tale about the selfless acts of a golden statue and a migrating swallow.
No Trespassing! - The tale of one giant and his garden.
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.
