stories

"Fallen off your bike!"

"On the rag!"

"Got the painters in!"

Encouraged by Trisha, the visiting Tampax lady, the girls were shouting out menstruation related phrases as an icebreaker.

The evening’s sunset glow, that reddens the West,
departs from me as day departs,
what would it do else?
tumbles away,
not into rest as I do, down, restful, at first, dead-away;

The kids at my new school liked me when we moved to Walsall. That was a problem. It meant I had to invent credible stories to distract them from hanging out at the flat.

Tuesday 23rd July 2002.

Monday 15th July 2002

I do not apologise for content of this short tale.

It was the only gift his father ever gave him. Arriving home from the pub, he called Michael’s name as he slammed the front door.

Toadstool

Walking home instead of getting the £20, ten-minute rip-off cab, was now my biggest mistake. I didn't know, how was I supposed to bloody know? Along this route, at this time.

I haven't left the house since 2001 and haven't moved from my bed for years.

'Should I have waited for him to come instead of you? Should I have waited for him to come taste the honey-salt?’ She dropped the sleeve like she was slamming down the phone.

Robin thought it strange that Cecil, a priest, would receive paperwork from Dylan, someone who deep-frys chips for a living.

My mum had bought me a straw summer hat. I’d wanted a hat like that when I was seven, but nowhere had sold boaters with cherries on.

Oversize.

Once a kingdom was threatened by a terrible and ferocious giant. His name was Megalumpus and he was ten times the height of the tallest man in the kingdom.

Story about two lads on their first ever adventure down under in Australia

Big brothers can be such a pain...

"Have you hidden my shoes again Claire Williams?"

Why did mum always use my full name when she thought I was in the wrong?

"No," I replied languidly, looking up from the television.

I have not seen the ghosts, not even caught a glimpse of them or heard a tiny whisper, as Han often claimed to growing up in the old Murphys house (I'd tell him he must've just heard mice or else is

I Got the job ...

I have to do the first three months probation on Eighteen grand plus commission