There’s Something in the Water

I hesitated at the door. It was a door I usually hesitated at, but this time was different. My skin … More

Invasive Species

The scene of the incident was nothing I hadn’t seen dozens of times before, but I never lost that spike … More

Clara had a neck scarf she treasured. It was dyed a blend of swirling blue and white, like the colours … More

“How do you defeat something?” “Defeat what?” “Anything?” Mannings had ushered him away to a basement, just a few minutes … 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

For a robot, it was enormous, a huge silver barrel of a body the size of a bus, swaying side … More

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

The routine The bedroom had always been a stressful place, a box. Grace took a deep breath and gazed at … More

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

My best friend, Marty Darnell, used to say he could read the shape of people. I often wondered what he … More

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

They could read your mood. That was the most terrifying thing. I wondered if they could even read your decisions. … 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

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

It was disturbing to take in the endless, neat rows of empty white seats in the preparation space. There had … More

I awoke sharply from a feverish dream, where I was standing with statuesque stillness and completely naked at a conference … More