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Jimmy's life changes for ever when the soldiers come to the door.
The moment when a life changes - and there's no going back.
The narrator describes what he remembers of his beautiful, intelligent wife, Ligeia.
When Lazarus comes back from the grave, something's not quite right.
Professor Panini is too clever for his own good.
"This is how you talk about a city you love. You talk about it as if it’s the only place in the world where this story can happen."
When Percy is seventeen, his life changes irrevocably, from one moment to the next
What is art? And who decides? The artist or the critic?
J.L. sees her dad at the Old Soldier's Parade.
The day the rain starts, Skylish skips classes with a new friend.
A Buddy Holly tribute band hits trouble when the County Fair pitches its tents.
A conversation about an unusual discovery.
Reading lessons prove unexpectedly beneficial for a cook and the retirement home where she works. A mouth-watering tale of fine food and personal developement.
A beautiful but rude and conceited princess is taught a lesson.
A boy goes for a haircut with his father.
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.
Detective Inspector Dave Box entered the room: an elderly man sat motionless in a wheelchair in a blue dressing gown open at his pale chest, revealing sparse hairs and a plastic tube entering the bottom of his throat.
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.
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.
The spark of his life was fading, but his mind was still sharp, and his memories cocooned him.
"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.
