He squinted. The fat girl had been talking continuously for 2 minutes and 43 seconds, which to him seemed like hours. Her face seemed very far away at the end of a dark tunnel. … Read more
Kind and Kin
Kind and Kin
It was just after midnight when Tabitha, quickly and silently made her way down the stairs. She paused at the bottom to listen.… Read more
Vaquero Monologue
“I was tricked.
And now I can see that it wasn’t you who tricked me or anybody else I accused along the way. It was me that did it. … Read more
Wings
Wings
I knocked gently at the attic room door. There was no answer. I knocked again a little harder this time and I heard a short grunt from within.… Read more
A Dormouse Tale
Seven hundred miles away, just outside the small village of Penne. On the edge of a very large oak forest in the south west of France, an edible dormouse named Bernard, waddled across the wooden floor in the attic of the old farmhouse. … Read more





