Category Archives: Stories

Did you ever long with heart and soul to open your newspaper one fine morning and rather than expose yourself yet again to the usual surfeit of celebrity scandals, political shenanigans, outbreaks of new wars or escalation of old ones, … Continue reading →

The alien in the attic was no secret to Portia Rockbottom. He was, after all, her paramour. Had been for a couple of months. And it all started with the scar on her nose. It began to itch. Portia had … Continue reading →

There was an intricacy in the pale, wrinkled hands he gently held that conjured up fine lace in his mind. He raised his eyes to the old woman’s face, a face suffused with a pixie smile as well as some … Continue reading →

[Lady Prudence Fauntleroy feels her blood pressure rise whenever Sir Frederick Bartholomew Pangborne passes by her house. She is by no means a flighty young woman, yet something about Sir Freddie compels chatoyant butterflies to quiver deep within, undulating wings … Continue reading →

Persephone Peony had writer’s block. She had not written a respectable line of prose or poetry in a fortnight, and she was beginning to fear that her muse had packed it up and fortnighted her permanently. Until this unexpected dearth … Continue reading →