"One man's hot day at work."
Heaving the last two lengths of timber onto my bare shoulder came as a relief. The empty pickup bed was something I'd dreamt of for hours. My feet set off down the narrow stone-paved walkway on auto-pilot, retracing my footsteps...
"An ancient mansion holds a mysterious woman, her hulking manservant, and their secret pleasures."
The silver van meandered through the sweeping bends of an oldgravel road. Shadows swept and danced through the trees’ towering trunks in the dim early morning haze. The passing headlights disturbed the undergrowth; the creatures and leaves stirring under its...
"One man's life on the precipice takes a new turn."
All around me, the grimy, cracking walls echoed with the deafening snarl of pistons. Burning rubber kicked up a storm of gravel that ricocheted all around like gunfire. I pressed myself deep into the darkest corner of the bridge arch...
Remember when it was just us, old friend?It was me against the worldOnly you were by my sideFor the years we spent togetherYou and I.Until Love broke into my life,Playing to the rhythm of my heart.She came between usAnd showed...
43 AD. Britannia. While gazing at the flickering lantern beside him, Legate Vespasian shuddered, though not from the cold. He glanced down to watch the slender, pale fingers of another’s hand trail down his scarred, olive skin and slither beneath...
"Cindy has a date for the ball - whether she likes it or not."
Two heavy-set coachmen hauled me through the broad ballroom doors by both arms. I was just a ragdoll between them – a reluctant, powerless girl, dragged through the cavernous, resplendent hall. I was towed into an ante-chamber and dropped unceremoniously...
"A worried husband calls his wife, late at night, and things take a surprising turn."
The fetid odour of uneaten pizza lingers in the stale, silent air as the sun slinks slowly over the skyline. The room turns dark for all except the defiant, flicking television in the corner. I swipe a fingertip across my...
"Beauty isn't always as innocent as it looks."
The mansion’s pale lights flickered through the rustling leaves and swaying tree boughs, casting tendrils of sinister shadows across the garden.The clipping of heels heralded the tall, gracious figure strutting up the stone pathway. Her pace was quick; her gait...
"How would you use a magic mirror?"
“Mirror, mirror…” A slow, clear voice intoned. A swirl of green light emerged in the centre of the mirror’s gleaming frame. It surged forth, raging like a storm. Two long shadows across the cold stone walls and floor as a...
"Little Red must rescue Grandma, by any means, right?"
Red shuffled through the forest with her shoulders hunched against the wind - red skirt and hooded cloak whipping around her pale legs. In the dark, cold forest, her billowing red hair seemed aflame. With a basket hung over her...