Cabin Fever
Mike's shorts were uncomfortably tight. He lay sprawled shirtless over the leather sofa in the stifling heat, legs crossed, a desk fan roaring full-blast in his face and the TV a couple of bars below full volume. It might as well have been a...
Waterproofing
It was a rainy Saturday in September, and Saffron was finishing up at a cafe in the town centre. She had been to see a friend earlier in the day, and had decided to finish off with a couple of cups of coffee before she walked through the countryside to...
[WS] The Problem with Mind Links
"OK." Zen paused alert in the moonlight at the edge of a thick forest, scanning the line of trees. "From what I know, the humans who've been tailing Trace and you lot entered this forest this evening, heading north. They're not near enough to you to be...
Straight and Narrow
I actually had _tons_ of fun writing this - I loved the chance to be able to experiment with a first-person unreliable narrator and to be free to use the kind of language that she herself would use: I don't usually use strong language in stories,...
Running Late
Arianne was late. Not only that but she was worried, too; this wasn't just any kind of late. This was a very specific, significant late that could spell big trouble for her if it kept on getting later. The ironic thing was that it had...