• Travel arrangements are confirmed. Luggage  packed. Passengers checked in and boarding passes  printed. The drinks trolleys filled. The cabin crew are on board and waiting to greet you… On Thursday, 1st December, 2011 A cast of amazing characters awaits your acquaintance with the paperback launch of our two interconnected short story anthologies. The Red Book [...]

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    I grit my teeth, push the ancient suitcase across the taxi seat and follow it, slamming the door behind me. The worn jeans and cotton shirt feel like a tailored suit of steel and sandpaper against the bruises blooming over my body and the lacerations tightening with dried blood. The driver turns and I smile, [...]

“Dad?” He didn’t respond at first, thinking the voice was only an echo from his past.In these last few months, his mind had been a cruel joker, giving strangers his son’s face as he shuffled through the streets. On one day, no less than twenty of the university town’s students had been his son for [...]

“Your mother is dead.” Hana, the woman my Father paid to take care of me, drifted into my room.“Where’s Father?” I asked. “He’s busy, Susie.” He’s busy. The phrase echoed in my ears. Father was always busy. He had made it clear to me at an early age his company was all he cared about, [...]

Wednesday 6.38 am A crazed panic controls my mind, as a nightmare I don’t dare remember bleeds away. My breath burns in my throat like I have been running—I’m paralysed, staring around recognising nothing, cold sweat covering me. After a moment, my body relaxes a little. I take a deep breath and everything around me [...]

“Mr. Davidson…”Right here my subconscious should have jumped out of bed and shut me up. But when you haven’t slept for more than a week your mind often steps out for a holiday without telling the rest of you where it’s off to. “…I think it’s time that you left. And please don’t come back [...]

“You just don’t get it,” Robin said leaning back in his chair. Lizzie held up her hands in silent protest but it did nothing to calm the anger inside of him.“I didn’t mean anything by it,” Lizzie said from across their table in the library, “I just don’t understand why you got into a fight [...]

Elizabeth dragged herself towards the car, leaving Doug to see to her luggage. Twice she stopped to take a gulp from her dwindling water supplies. Arriving with her luggage, Doug flung open all the car doors and signalled towards the tree under which the car was standing.“You’d best stay outside for a few minutes, give [...]

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