What was it about the Jelly Bean Street painting that made Madelaine's partner Phillip prepared to pay over the odds for something that looked like it had been painted by…

Of all the things to criminalise, And cover up with countless lies, You chose cannabis and made up stories, But that’s typical of you – you’re Tories. It would have…

In days long gone, ordinary folk in need would throw a ha’penny into a well and make a wish.  The people would wish for simple things, like for their children…

I’ve been to some fancy parties, And even to an RAF officer’s Mess. But why everyone there seems to drink wine, I really can’t hazard a guess. Wine tastes to…

Twenty minute fiction. Ian Thompson passed the plate of sausage rolls to a suited man standing next to him and began to walk towards the dark haired woman in the…

Long time the Tories have been here. Let’s vote them out! Them and their gout! And not allow them anywhere near.

Ten Minute Fiction. Once upon a sometime in the early 1980s, there was a man named Phillip Allen aged forty-six.  He worked as a freelance sound engineer in some of…

(Thanks to Mani Isna La @mikecoulson48 (Twitter) for the inspiration to write this story.) Cassandra Reynolds picked up her expensive handbag and headed for the door of the café where…

A Tale of the Bizarre. Gina Roberts, filled with apprehension, was staring out of her kitchen window into the garden.  The sun was starting to sink below the horizon and…

Based on a folktale from Japan. ‘Mukashi mukashi’ as they say in Japan or as we say, ‘once upon a time’, there was a young and handsome fisherman named Urashima…