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The Blue Pig bar was in the dodgy area of town, Melda usually avoided. It was full of the kind of people she disliked: people who when sh...

"Mail it to him," Eter said. Noix grimaced. He hated using the postal system. Other witches used Owls, but Eter said she didn't...

"The last treasurer was either a fool or a thief," Black said. "We never really knew which." I furrowed my brow. &quo...

"You better put him in the back, with the others," she said, pointing at the corpse on the floor. I sighed. "I hate clowns...

"Hook it!" Jack said. He was pushing against Rob, which was making it difficult for Rob to control the hook. "Back off!&qu...

"Glue him to the table," she said. The two men holding me dragged me over to the stark white slab in the centre of the room. I ...

The idea was hers. I sit in the car, the engine idling quietly. When I wind down the window a gust of wind takes my breath away, filling ...

I awoke with a start as something hit the desk with a bang. "Don't plagiarise!" Marie said, looking down at me. Then, "Wer...

"Right," Robin said, his face screwed up in what I assumed was pain. "Let's go infect the others." I blinked. "T...

"I beg to differ," the woman with the hat said. She seemed to swell with indignation, becoming - in my eyes at least - twice as...

I was dragged along, my chains rattling along the floor, my arms aching as the guards roughly pulled me. I blinked as the light struck my...

"It's my round," Phil said and Claire nearly fell off her stool. Mike's mouth was open. "What?" Phil asked. "Are...

"Walk this way, please," the woman said, in a clipped accent that sounded as if it could cut him if he got too close to it. She...

The area, known locally as the Cluster Fork because of it's three pronged appearance and the difficulty in navigating it without destroyi...

He realised what had gone wrong straight away, but he didn't say anything because the last time he had brought problems to the Boss' atte...

For the fifteenth year in a row Hank had won the Annual Award For Idiots. Proudly, he boasted of his achievement to the journalists who g...

A New Dawn... I awoke to a new dawn, literally and metaphorically. The sun shone brightly through the windows: in all the excitement and ...

"Let me breathe," she had said. But he didn't think he was suffocating her. Not at first. He thought it was what she wanted: fo...

"He coerced me," she said, pointing at the small rabbit in the cage in the corner of the room. "What?" Elbert said, h...

He had been walking the streets for an hour but it was the same all over the town: all the polling stations were closed. Outside this one...

He didn't like the sound of an Acid Bath and told her so. The woman smiled and said, "It isn't as bad as it sounds. The acid is very...

"Don't pick that!" the woman next to me shouted, and slapped my hand away from the apple I was just about to put into my basket...

He was scratching his head again. "Stop it!" I said. "Please, it's turning my stomach. You look like a flea ridden baboon....

They called him Belly Fat because he was as skinny as a rake. It made no sense to anyone who wasn't there when the joke was first made, b...

It was the dirty dish that started the argument. Well, Kathy thought, it wasn't really the dirty dish. It was the resentment that had bui...

"Do you like it?" she looked up to see a man smiling down at her. He was tall, very tall. And very thin. He looked like a daddy...

He opened the app when he recieved the text message from his wife, without thinking about it. Later, he would wonder why he hadn't questi...

It was twenty past two when he had the first attack of the wobbles as his mother would have said. He was walking in the park, a habit he ...

They called her The Painter of Dreams and she lived at number thirty three on the High Street, two doors down from the Horse and Hounds P...

It was the last bus out of the city and it was headed to Deep Groan. Mark had heard of it, a tiny village not far from the edge of the wo...