Keeping Company

A pool of water from the lashing rain grew outside the long, shallow factory window, a mirror on the concrete. … More

New Day

Graveyards of idiots I reached a moment of pure honesty on the morning of the eve of my fifty-fifth birthday. … More

“It’s happening…” she said, her ear pressed against the phone as if to protect her. She turned and her blue … More

I saw myself standing on the other side of the reinforced glass door to my house as I turned into … More

When the vice president turned on the ambassador, it was shocking but not surprising. You can sense a tsunami in … More

“Everything in this life starts and ends with money.” That seems especially poignant now. He said it softly, like an … More

I loved my holidays. They were the only times I cared about, to be brutally honest. They were also the … More

“What is the value you have?” A simple, short question. The start question for every potential employer. Answering was simple. … More

Absolute silence combined with absolute darkness can drive you mad. Your brain begins to fill in the void with its … More

I didn’t realise at first. Everybody was dead. Everybody. I was on the beach, the sun was out, the wind … More

At 11:11 PM Greenwich Mean Time at the bus stop on the corner of Carver Avenue in the sleepy British … More

The suburban matrix was still and quiet and not in the usual way. There were no young mothers pushing prams … More

I witnessed the curling black mushroom cloud for the briefest of moments, it reached over the city on fire like … More

“What is it worth to you, really?” That was his twisting question. Alasha looked the trade agent in the eye … More

“There are twenty artefacts on the countertop, on the top floor of the Lewis temple, and there are fifty of … More

The sea was a mirror of the sky except, in one, you would drown and in the other, you would … More

Genemagix, the word was nonsense, like most brands and company names, and yet, the investment-burgeoning startups of Silicon Valley hinged … More

It had seemed like a good idea to view the city from the highest point, which was obviously Grey’s Insurance … More

The storm was keeping Sam Morrison awake. He listened to the lid fly from the recycling bin and clatter across … More

Norman Grant didn’t believe in predetermined fate or praying to God but he was contemplating both of these ideas as … More