Glow Stories

I open the door and step inside. My work bag drops to the ground, and my fingers start loosening my tie. Like usual. Then I notice the envelope on the ground right in front of me. One of those thick brown ones, like what I use at work. With a strange, purple string wrapped around it. Not usual at all. I pick it up and pull slowly on the delicately tied knot. It releases, and I pull out a piece of paper. I read the title p...

David and I had been married for almost ten years and we were both very much middle-order management in our chosen professions. Mine was insurance and David's, banking.  We met at university quite by chance; it was through mutual friends.  We both graduated with first-class degrees but it was really hard work for the three years that we were on our courses.  We had no children by choice, something which I came to regret b...

At first I thought I'd imagined her aura from across the room simply because she was heart-stoppingly beautiful. Blamed a product of too many movie moments in my head: the slow-motion swish of her charcoal plait and an orchestral swell as her head turned, those malachite eyes connecting with mine, set atop high cheekbones. But on second look, the shimmering full-body halo remained. Singled her out from all the other guest...