Out of Respect for the Pump
I shift in my seat and reach for a magazine, Popular Science, my blouse slipping down again as I do so. His eyes are down my shirt, reveling in the …
Category: Slightly Longer
How Fuzzy Was He?
Fuzzy Wuzzy was not, in spite of the rhymes to the contrary, a bear. In fact he was a breed of dog called a "Newfoundland"-though he had no idea what …
Into a New Year
As the speedometer ticked over 88KPS, a flash of light blinded Henry and he screamed in terror. Joanna laughed like a schoolgirl seeing a naked boy for the first time …
Series 1 Chapter 1: The Essence of Understanding
All her life her parents had fought like this, and somehow Shay knew it was her fault. She was too strange, too much of a reader and a weirdo, and …
The Christmas Mouse
A green paper cutout of a Christmas tree was taped delicately to the wall above a tiny mouse hole. There were no gifts beneath, but Izzy felt that if the …