Turtle Diary
I was getting hot flashes of desperation and running about the flat picking things up and putting them down aimlessly. I wanted a rest, wanted peace, wanted the world to let me along for a bit. King Kong was playing at the Chelsea Odeon, so I went. Wonderful inside...
Pilgermann
Before I could think what I was doing I had cut the rope with the knife given me by the second Sophia. The bear crashed to the ground and lay there without moving. The man turned on me in a fury. ‘You murdering fool!' he screamed, ‘You've killed God!' I said, ‘I...
Home
no one leaves home unlesshome is the mouth of a sharkyou only run for the borderwhen you see the whole city running as well your neighbors running faster than youbreath bloody in their throatsthe boy you went to school withwho kissed you dizzy behind the old tin...
The Elephant’s Journey
This commanding officer is not like other officers, in that he is as concerned about his men, soldiers and non-soldiers alike, as if they were his children. More than that, he is little concerned with hierarchy, at least in the current circumstances, so much so that...
Such A Pretty Little Picture
Adelaide Wheelock's friends - and she had many of them - said of her that there was no nonsense about her. They and she regarded it as a compliment. Sister, the Wheelocks' five-year-old daughter, played quietly in the gravel path that divided the tiny lawn. She had...