"For thousands of years they walked the earth, their mere existence hidden from us. But one-by-one they began to fade. What now for those that remain?"
Gaia'niraConsciousness returned slowly; it was like waking from an exceedingly long sleep.What had roused me?After a while–a minute, an hour, a day–I began to remember.They’d come to the woods hunting, looking for someone to blame. Unprepared, they’d cornered me.The 1600s...
"Surely, the most devastating of all monsters is that which comes from within?"
The two young girls played vivaciously in the cool water by the glade. As they splashed and frolicked, their laughter echoed around the mountain valley. The surrounding trees, comprising primarily of larch, beech and spruce – and, of course, oak...
"Just who was the mysterious woman washing clothes in the stream and why must Lady Catherine find her?"
Lady Catherine and her maid trotted their horses through the mist which enveloped the Phoenix Park. She rode with the poise demanded of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy. Despite the brutal murder of Lord Frederick Cavendish, the British Cabinet minister with responsibility...
"He promised to pull out, but he didn’t, and so they fell."
The orange sun was dipping behind the distant hills, its remaining light shimmering across the still pond. Yesh and Shalay knelt in the soft grass at the edge of the woods, facing the water. Yesh pushed her round, muscular haunches...
"Legend, myth,"
It was a dark and stormy night. I was reminded of that fact by a beagle glaring down at me, hunched over like a vulture, perched on the porch of my destination. I pulled my raspberry beret down snugly for...
"Having the greatest sex of your life sounds amazing, but it depends on the price…"
Melissa sighed as she sipped her cocktail. “I so envy my kids. It was absolutely the best sex of my life – and it will never happen again.”Terry lifted her eyebrows. “You’re sending both of the twins? Is Henry OK...
"Xander finds that some stories passed through the ages are not what they seem."
The flicker of the campfire illuminates our circle of rapt faces, the wood popping and crackling in the dark as Dexter brings his tale to a climax."Terror!" he yells with the gravitas of a Shakespearean understudy. "That's how it reigns."...
"What would you do to help a friend in need?"
It was around half-past-eleven as Judith left her cottage and set off for the church. The full moon shone brightly in the cloudless sky, and she had no difficulty in finding her way. For reasons no-one could quite remember, the...
