Parallel lives

"Forgotten: the brilliant yet disfigured girl whose genius facilitated the Industrial Revolution"

History records that a certain celebrated eighteenth century inventor and engineer was an only child. However, recent cataloging of previously unseen family documents has unearthed a hitherto unknown diary of one who appears to be his younger sister. Though written...

Borrowed

"A scratchy old 78 pithily portends the poignant resolution of a passionate affair"

You say I'm merely borrowed Like in some old cliché Of a song recording sorrow In some other place, on some other day Well let me tell you, Miss I have no more time, no more love than this Please...

When first I saw you

"The fates never sleep - the next click could change your life"

When I first saw you, saw you raw but saw you not, I gaped in awe; the flawless flesh a blurry fist failed to eclipse. Enlisting spit an index finger painted purple prose upon its bloody nose and glistening oozing...

The lift descending

"A battle-weary killer shares a ride with something even more deadly: a desperate woman."

'Have you a cock?' The question that broke the mandatory silence was empty of emotion, as when one asks an automated teller for tens or twenties. My answer was equally flaccid. 'No. I have no need of one.' 'Really? No...

Cleaning up

"A budding writer reluctantly receives correction from his sexy young cleaner"

A writer's journey is of infinite steps and starts with a single word. Typically - and usually deservedly - that word is 'Rejection'. However, we stumble onwards and, by degrees, approach our impossible destination. Please give this particular stumbling hack...