Tuesday evening. A quarter past eight. It’s dark out. As the train eases out of the main station, the interior of the carriage reflects in the window. I’m right at the front of the train, my back to the driver’s cabin. There aren’t many people in this car...
It seemed a peculiarly old-fashioned way to go about things. These days you expect everything to be distributed digitally, hard copy a thing of the past, though the envelope was delivered in a modern enough way, by courier service, even if driving up in a...
I was actually quite relieved to be given a room of my own. The ward I’d been on following my operation had been a depressing place. There’d been three other men there, none of whom made great conversation partners. One of them was three-quarters deaf and...
Dear Cuck.As always, it was very kind of you to lend me your wife for the night, and equally unwise.Still, by now you know more or less how my mind works, so you really only have yourself to blame. Or rather, since you know how my mind works, I can only a...
Maybe you think being a male stripper is a glamorous job. Maybe the very job title conjures up images of Chippendales and a hall full of excitable females, maybe even those videos with a room full of women eager to gobble your cock. It’s not really like t...
Thank you for responding so promptly to our offer. We hereby cordially invite you to our special Three Rooms Experience. Please expect a representative to call on you at 7 pm this evening.That was all. There was nothing to identify the sender of the text...
Professor Evans stood at his window, looking down on the students milling about below. It was shocking the way young girls dressed these days. Well, they were young women, he supposed, at least in law, but he could never think of anyone under 25 as a prop...
Dimly I awake.Slowly regaining some semblance of consciousness, a shudder runs through my body at the realisation that I have no idea where I am. I don’t know what time it is. I don’t know how long I’ve been asleep. I don’t know if it’s still night, or if...
The man twisted the business card between his fingers with a terrible sensation in the pit of his stomach, like waves crashing against the rock he’d always considered his marriage to be; erosive powers eating away at it. He was in a car, his wife’s car. H...
It was when the taxi continued along the Ring Road instead of taking the left turn to the area where she lived that Tess started to feel worried.“Excuse me,” she said. “I think you missed the turning.”“What turning?” the cabbie replied. “You didn’t really...
The street was still, silent, unnaturally silent for a night like this. Chloe’s perpetual gum-chewing worked in tandem with the sound of Samantha’s heels. “So where are we going?” Samantha asked.“Through here,” Chloe said.It was a narrow passageway, and a...
“You coming to the party later?”“Maybe,” Sam said casually. “I haven’t decided yet.”His sister, Melinda, shrugged. “Then maybe we’ll see each other later.”“Yeah.”Sam watched as his sister turned and left the room, leaving a waft of scent behind her. He wa...
Mary frowned, staring at her day planner. Under the day’s date there was one entry, “AUDITION 1 P.M.”. It was unmistakably her own handwriting, she just couldn’t remember writing it. Audition? What possible audition could that be? Occasionally she had gon...
It wasn’t until Jeanette was sitting in her boss’ car on her way to his house that she began to become worried that there might be something in this nonsense about the magical figurine.To be sure she’d noticed Geoff’s eyes raking her all over all day, but...
Natalie turned the padded brown envelope in her hands, the one that had arrived by mail that day. There was no sender on it, but her name was printed on the plain white label on the front. Somehow she sensed it was weird.“Just open it,” her sister, Jeanet...
