The ‘Jelly-Bean Street’ Painting.
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…
The Hat, the Imp, the Beggar & the Wishing Well.
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…
The Fantastic Fluke.
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…
The Plant Whisperer.
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…
Mother – Chapter Four
Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Jamilla’s Watching MANY full moons had passed since the strangers had begun working near the bottom of the mountain, the mountain Jamilla’s mother and…
The Parable of the Gold-digger.
(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…
“Ice to see You”
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…
The Lost Burdens – Chapter 4
Links to Previous chapters – Prologue Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 His head was pounding, pounding. He felt as though he were a door, and someone was rapping at…
Mother – Chapter Three
IT is not that I am vengeful. It is not that I want these humans to pay for what they have done. Although perhaps if I am being honest, and…