The rain splashed across Cathy’s windscreen faster than her wipers could clear it, the continuous impact vibrating through her fingers. They clenched around the wheel as she navigated yet another blind corner, the right-hand bend a blur of muddy verge and road. With...
Maggie strolled into the office, smiling at Carol as she passed through reception. Jake was already at his desk. “Hey, Jake. How come you’re in so early?” “In court this morning.” He looked up from his notes and smiled. “Nice shoes.” There was no subtlety about the...
All I knew at the time and then it was like there was no time or that my whole life was squeezed into the lifespan of a thunderclap or a single hollow click-song of a cicada like the ones that used to descend on my grandparents' farm where later in that old barn on...
"You rang madam?" "Yes Hudson, I rang." "What is it madam?" She stood, hands resting on the back of the sofa, her back to the window. "Come over here and lift my dress up at the back." "Madam!" his voice registered his shock. "Well?" her voice registered mild...
I should start at the beginning. It had been a long time since I'd had a decent swim in the dating pool, if you know what I mean. I'd been trying the singles bars, the "puppy play-dates" in the parks, speed-dating, dating services, letting friends hook me up, I'd even...
Only a blind person could keep his eyes off Gelsey. When she came into a room everyone, male and female, interrupted their life for a moment and just gazed. And after she had settled into their midst, they were compelled to steal frequent glances. Gelsey was like a...
Dennis replaced the telephone receiver. "The boss wants to see me right away. Why is the boss after me?" He asked, turning for answers from Lee and Dean, whose desks were nearest his. "I haven't done anything wrong." "You'd best go smart-like and find out. It's...
"What's the matter, Gleason? Never seen a woman fucked out of her senses before?" The man with the bulging briefcase had stepped - actually sidestepped - into the pool of light in the center of what was once a sunken dance floor. He leaned to one side, peering at the...
"This is what I want you to know," Sophia began. "I was able to love afterwards." She had seen him in the web after years, in the way that the web had connected everything now, so that there would never be any escape from the past again. She'd heard his voice once...
The act of vanishing from the face of the earth is not as romantic as it sounds. There are twenty-four hours in a day and ultimately there is one person from whom you can never entirely escape. The glimmer of satisfaction comes in knowing that surely, somewhere,...