Trees brushed against sky. "It's like a movie," she said. "How is that?" I asked.

“Movement.  T-men, squirters, could be locals.  Get Terp to ping ‘em.” “They’re coming around.”   Creeping a few inches, looking through...

The westerly wind winds down the valley so heavily that people become winded. It is hard to tell if it is a planetary or a primary wind,...

Lined up in our chairs, waiting to be butchered...I feel like I should know what it’s like to cut through someone’s skin with a scalpel....

The children sat quietly, cross legged on the floor. They were small humans, not above 6years of age. Far from fully formed, but getting...

‘Rare or medium rare?’ ‘Well done, please.’ ‘You’ll have to get that from a different barbecue, mate. This isn’t a crematorium.’ ‘Don’t...

Slowly. Very, very slowly.  Muscles imperceptibly moving. Eyes still, forward, focussed, rivetted, locked on. Mottled light on mottled...

Ms Johns stood in front of her senior school English class. They were good kids in general. Keen and enthusiastic.   ‘Predator from the...

"Miss, what's history?" "Cataclysm forming now. Tea once hot, sits warm."   We dreamed to be them. When scraping marrow from bones, and...

She looked out the window and cried. She was in despair. Her life had fallen apart. He was gone. Gone, but not only out of the house, but...

“Hiya, I’m Miles.  6’2”, beer-bellied, broad with full Ned-Kelly beard.  I have a Sinead hairstyle (vale Sinead), lots of wigs but love...

Muffling dawn stirs, settles a cold mist and bows the soft brome.  The village bodach wheezingly, struggles onto one elbow, shakingly...

They stepped forward one and all to help where they could. The others couldn’t be there. They had a different purpose.   The monster that...

Cockatoo listens. Yaris serpentine belt shrieks. Plaintive song to one.