His mother was permanently a bit drunk. Never blotto, never sober. She seemed to always have a half empty glass…
I found my secret den right at the start of the summer holidays. Our back garden is wild, overgrown with…
My father left when I was two, just disappeared. He’d emptied out the family bank account, left a huge amount…
I know I’ve been here before. I’ve told you it all many times. Way too many. But this time I…
‘How was school?’ Dad asked at dinner, as he did every day. I used to find it tedious, predictable, but…
Utopia Novi. that’s what someone named this planet. Someone with a sick sense of humour. New Utopia indeed, a world…
‘God I hate you!!!’ I screamed at them. ‘I hate both of you!’ I stamped my foot like a four…
‘Did you read the new article by Prof Greene in this month’s New Scientist?’ Prof Wolfe asked his professor wife…
Derek phoned his wife from work. ‘We need to talk,’ he told her grimly. ‘Meet me in The Red Lion…
There comes a time in everybody’s life when you realize that it just is not going to happen for you.…