THE GARGOYLE'S DISPLEASURE

The family sunbathed like lions in the parching heat. Bowls of aromatic spices scented the balmy air around the patio. Strings of beads shiv...

Ravaged by hate, the green folds buckled where the warheads hit, dry-stone lines exploding like strokes. It was a super heated June when th...

Offcut was a tinker bot on the Planet Swarf. Like all robots on Swarf he served a feudal master. Offcut's master was called Lord Grilla,...

Sat here on the barren sands overlooking the ocean I recollected my fateful voyage. I had been sent from Earth to gather data on the vortex ...

I purchased the tilly lamp from the old chandler on the quayside. A black cage shackling a kerosene flame, it lit my way that night as the f...

I was born a corm. A rhizome. A child root in the humus. Slowly I xylemed. Surged, I rose on hyphae beyond the soil. I could feel the sun. S...

Harold strutted round the corridors like he owned the joint. An ex-rock star with one foot in the Styx, Harold demanded adulation. "Get...

" C'mon Cecil. We'll be late!" "Ok my love. I just need to find the big umbrella. It's in the shed." "W...

Kringlefinger stirred the enormous cauldron of Christmas soup with his massive spoon. Even for an elf he was so short and crooked he had to ...

After the place was abandoned in the Nineties, the flame went out at Saltersgate Inn.  It was a bad omen on the moors. Long had it been said...

Palindrome was an unusual citadel. Constant in most factors, it was noticeably unusual in one respect. Every newborn had to have a name that...