Jack Chambers, former dot com millionaire and feared corporate raider, was scared and clueless.He had no memory of the past few...
Past the midnight hour on a frigid winter night, with the city's suburbs wrapped in a thick blanket of darkness, a weary...
“Do you want to do something fun?” she said.It was never my suggestion, but June Lilly was tall with long, shiny hair that...
The turner, Grigory Petrov, who had been known for years past as a splendid craftsman, and at the same time as the most...
There in her living room, Francesca sat on the couch looking at the news for the first time in a couple of weeks or so. She...
Zack liked the storm, from seven floors up, cosy and warm, watching from behind a double-glazed window as the whole darkened...
By Simon J. Wood
Hawaii has a ripening climate, and Dorothy Sambrooke had been exposed to it under exceptionally ripening circumstances
By David Gardiner
We’re going through!” The Commander’s voice was like thin ice breaking. He wore his full–dress uniform, with the heavily...
By Charles Dicken
Children have many worlds through which they are free to roam. It is an ability that rapidly fades with age in most of us, for...
By Henry Van Dyke
By David Gardiner
"Lindsay, are you ready for shopping? Donna patiently waited for her daughter to answer. "Lindsay, do you hear me?"Peering down...
By David Gardiner
Western Tales: An emotional tale of romance and regrets Allie and Kenny2013In San Diego, very early morning, a thirty eight...
By Margaret Atwood
By J.A. Buxton
By David Gardiner
Every day is a struggle. A new day brings a new way for death to sneak up on me. He is waiting for the time to take me, a time...
By Louis Williams
By Michelle Pearson
By Wilkie Collins
By Rudyard Kipling
I’m Donald Kinnaird. I live across the corridor. I just wanted to say hello.”“Okay. You’ve said hello.”“Ye seem to...
In the room of one of my friends hangs a mirror. It is an oblong sheet of glass, set in a frame of dark, highly varnished wood,...
Miles Davis’ “Baddies Brew” makes a horrible soundtrack for a late–night commute across mid–winter mountain roads
By Sobia Younis
He’d phoned her on Tuesday, from the ship. He’d queued for over an hour waiting his turn. The communication system had been...
