Embed Music – Embed Audio Files – Beyond Repair My front wheel is over it before I have time to react. I swerve and run the car on to the grass verge. I stop, heart hammering, afraid to look back at what I have done. In the dusk, it is difficult to see. I think […]
Once again Harlow felt his morale being bolstered by the reassuring presence of the high calibre pistol nestling in his inside pocket. He eyeballed his opponent… already one man lay dead, his skull crushed by a lethal blow from… Tony stopped typing, blinked, and rubbed his forehead. The afternoon sun glinted on the sovereign ring […]
He did all the things he always did in the morning: he closed the door between the kitchen and the hall, left the note for the cleaner beside the ivory elephant on the hall table, straightened the mat before closing the front door behind him. He could hear the city before he saw it; the […]
Embed Music Files – Play Audio – The Pianist He came to me that morning. It was a year since I had been shattered. Destitute of hope. Four whole seasons had passed and I found it impossible to forget, let alone to forgive, what had happened to me. My body hibernated in sadness, inside the […]
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Upload Music Files – Embed Audio – holiday butterflies The clicking of Mum’s white plastic platform boots on the flagstones behind me was suddenly drowned out by an announcement: The arrival of the 10.45 from Bristol. Despite her near naked state, in lime green hot pants and a t-shirt, Mum was huffing and puffing in […]
Embed Music Files – Embed Audio Files – The Oak Door Lilly stands staring at the great oak door. She loved this old wooden door. She loved the coolness of the oak against her fingertips, the smoothness of the dark varnish, and the deep swirls which decorated its surface. She would sit and stare, wondering […]
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