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A camping holiday with the family takes an unexpected turn.
When Chuck Walaach enters the Elvis Look-Alike Competition, something has to give.
Adapted from a Minang folk tale from Sumatra, this story tells of the ambitious and resourceful Malin Kundang.
Philosophy meets sex on the French Riviera
A family reunion from the perspective of a granny with attitude.
A man has a day out with the young son of a woman he is seeing.
A story that explores a woman's restless childhood through the various types of bread she encountered.
An investigator is put on the case when a mad philologist steals a new weapon.
A boy goes on a camping trip with his estranged father.
When the favorite for the Wessex Cup disappears and his trainer murdered, Holmes travels to Dartmoor to investigate.
In the mosh pit at a Tricky Woo gig, a confession concerning a young man's adventure with Lisa the Buzz Cut. Contains strong language.
Tale of the highs and lows of working in a chip shop. Contains strong language.
An old time hobo takes the train ride of his life.
An obese mother's unusual powers of water retention save her family.
A profile of the timid but highly irritating man known to his friends as Luke.
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.
