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

Time Storm at Tesco

Clean up on aisle five I was shopping, feeling the residual chill in the freezer aisle at the local Tesco … More

Light is death ‘Don’t go toward the light.’ That was why lighthouses were built. The light was death on rocks; … More

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

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

I had damaged myself. The blood was caked about my hand and wrist and had made the cuff of my … 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

The memory was a fixed one. Some memories are like sediment, debris in the tidal flow of the mind, others … More

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

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

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

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

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

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