An amber flame dances before me. So much beauty, power and potential. This little flame could light a fireplace to warm a home, or start a wildfire, ravaging everything in its path.Me, I choose destruction. Before the flames begin to lick at my fingertips, I bring the match up to the edge of the cigar [...]
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“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 [...]
Chinese Whisperings invites you to kick back with your favourite beverage and Take Five with Somerset writer Emma Newman, creator of Heartache.
The Red Book, Audio Trailer
