Christmas 1956
The smell of carbolic was strong at St John's. It always seemed to clash with the image I had of the nurses. Each morning I would watch them leave the hall of residence, wrapped in royal blue cloaks with just…
Jack in the Box
My hell hole, a solitary candle lit it's straight jacket dimensions, every time the earth trembled I wondered if it would become my coffin. I picked my team, ex-game keepers and Fred. We had found nothing. I was about to…
Used Magic.
For now he was sealed in a stone tomb, but Nimueh had overlooked that stolen magic would gradually over time return to its own master. So millenniums would go by. Arthur and his round table would pass into legend. Nations…
Rusty dreams
Sitting down Dan thought of the little paper bags that his wife used to put up for him, each with a blue paper twist of salt within. Like the packet's of crisps in bygone days. Dan loved salt with his…
Reynard the Fox
He knew he was in for trouble, you just did not come between man and wife: and he had got into bed with the wife whilst the farmer was still asleep. He had not meant too it. It just happened…
Birds of a Feather
They did not seem upset, that in itself surprised me, when I had walked into the living room and saw them sitting there, I expected a raucous welcome, but they just sat there. I walked across to the glass…
‘I don’t want to be involved’
I don't want to be involved said Jim, to the three teenagers who surrounded him on the high street. 'It's to late you were the driver and you mounted the pavement, knocking the camera out of our friends hand. It is going to…