I engaged the handbrake, switched off the engine and leaned back against the head restraint. Spot on 7 p.m. I’d always been one of those guys who were somehow in tune with time, bang on […]
I gazed through the glass out over the estate. It was still the same shithole it had been when I was growing up here. Nothing ever changed. People got older, people died, and others, like […]
As Jaime stepped out of the shower, his rail thin body dripping, he reached for a towel. The loose metal towel rack jangled as he took it and put it to his face. The musty […]
Want to know what Evelyn’s two biggest fears are? Snakes and stumbling upon a dead body. Weird, right? Maybe not the fear of snakes, because everyone is either afraid of snakes or knows someone afraid […]
By the time he arrived at the window the attack had already begun. The afternoon sunlight gave the scene a frighteningly surreal quality, something he had grown familiar with lately but never accustomed to. […]
When it all finally went horribly wrong, nobody really understood. All her friends, meaning to be kind and sympathetic, only seemed to criticise. “He’s a complete wastrel. I can’t imagine why you married him in […]
Markus cups his hands as far around the enormous tankard in front of him as he can manage and lowers his head towards the brim. As the hot steam envelopes his head he sighs happily, […]
It’s the season of Halloween and I am ignoring the sunshine in order to get into the creepy dark mood that I should have. As a Romanian, I feel a personal connection with the […]
“I’m just a pretty girl who will soon be forgotten.” —Norma Jeane Baker I The fanatic didn’t know how he was going […]
George took a deep breath, trembled slightly as he held the air in his lungs, then exhaled slowly while relishing the vision of womanhood in front of him. He wiped sweaty palms over the corduroy […]
Dearest Julia, I am writing this under considerable mental strain since by tonight I shall be no more. At the end of my ability to think clearly, I can bear the fear and anxiety no […]
Death will take me… But not Today He will hide in shadows with a final grin HE will look over my shoulder and breath His chill on my neck Then growl in disgust As I […]
In an otherwise empty cinema, six seats in the front row contained occupants. They weren’t all sitting side by side; there was a vacant chair between each of them. There was a reason for this. […]
CHAPTER ONE I lay on my back and gasped while I struggled to breathe. The stench of the sand dusted ground beneath me filled my senses; a heady mix of sweat and blood so dense […]
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