THE GARGOYLE'S DISPLEASURE

Warning: offensive spoken language

It was Halloween. The darkness sat on the town like a burnt dress. Cass revved his bike and spun. Smoke plumed from its burning tyres. He wa...

Kotzka loved his pet shop. He'd had it for 50 years. It was his life. His wife's too. Kotzkas had been a permanent feature of the ...

Stiff on its back the dead fly simmered in the sill sun. It had died the day before just before laying eggs on some rancid chicken. Job done...

Hendry returned to work after a sudden and serious illness. He had been off for 6 months. While travelling on the steamy bus he passed smok...

Does your sandcastle ever quiver? Does its flag shake and disappear? I live in the sand on the beach. I died here. That would be me doin...

Josef sat alone on the old sofa.  He liked it down there under the six arches.  Sometimes he slept there. It was so quiet. So peaceful. ...

Dickmann was down on his luck.  His bouncy castle business wasn't doing very well at all and his wife was on his back.  He  just wan...

Pitt sat with an old newsreel on. She had always wondered what Kennedy meant by the other things. Well go to the moon and do the other thing...