I was looking out to sea when you left. You never told us you were leaving. Just came and went with the mist. I called your name 17 times but you were gone. Why did you not hear me call you? I had seen your…

She walked solitarily up its face, not knowing if she would ever reach the top of this foreboding cliff. She knew she would have to make it this time or try again until she came face to face with its full reality. There was no…

She sat in her study coughing and spluttering like some tobacco worn out addict. Yet she had never tasted tobacco in her entire life and she was not addicted to anything except love. She wanted to get on with the novel she was writing. Aged…

Hey you ‘Looking Glass of no Return’! Do you really know my future? Can you show me all the things I want to do in life? Will it all happen before I’m 30?  I look at myself, covered with acne, pale in spring from studying…

The boy was called Arran. A long time ago he'd been a ship cabin boy but now the waves had calmed him and his life long ambition was now to be the captain, but no-one took him seriously, no-one really cared for this little scum…

'I was taking her to school you see and...' The teacher stopped her there, told her to calm down and tell the truth. 'Well, it all started with the barbie...' It began at the garden barbecue, the one we'd been setting up for some time,…

Dear Everyone I'd like to tell you a story about a man called Jack. He is in his late thirties. He chooses not to work because he has his own projects to do. He doesn't like forms or giving out personal information. He chooses to…

She was shuffling around her apartment in her old gown, quite dishevelled like a bag lady who had given up on it all, but just trundled along like she had always done. Sheila was only in her 60's, not that old for nowadays. But she…

Johnny Soldier had been fighting in wars all his life; fights with his mother, father, sisters, friends and his beloved wife. His fight was no battle-field. Or army camp. It was no war zone or territorial army. Johnny's fight was with himself - not even…

I don't know where to begin my story of mountain heart. You came to me when I most needed you or someone; just a friendly helper, a place to go in the cold snow. It was a wondrous time, us walking together in snow filled…