‘How much for this?’ Sadie asked, handling the purple, green and yellow coloured-glass bead necklace. ‘That, my dear, it’s nothing but a cheap glass trinket of no real value. If you’re looking for jewellery, we have some beautiful jet necklaces or pearls.’ The woman moved across the junk shop with a grace and speed that
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She saw the circus flyer pinned to a lamppost on the corner of the dilapidated street where she lived. She paused, only for a moment, it wasn’t the kind of neighbourhood it was safe to pause longer in, but she was hooked. Now, all they had to do was wait and one thing the damned
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‘Shut up, woman,’ he snarled at the thing, his wife, who sat on the bed sneering at him as usual. He’d spent a lifetime listening to her, before her it had been his father carping and griping day after day about his shortcomings. He sat at the dressing table mirror putting the last touches to
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She pulled the van by the curb and assessed the modest, frame home. The yard was covered by weeds and wild flowers with thin traces of Bermuda grass. “It’s hard to find someone to deliver meals to Mr. Adams,” the supervisor at Meals on Wheels had explained. “He has leprosy, but it’s not contagious. It
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The first things Tom saw when he regained consciousness were the strand of rope used to bind his hands and the black hood that had covered his head. So Ogre had really done it. Shot Tom execution style. Ogre. First time Tom met the hulking killer he thought Ogre’s face looked like a slab of
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Uncle Pete’s a taxidermist. He learnt how down in the city afore he moved back home with me, Ma and Pa, and Granny here in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. I found his hobby fascinatin’. All that wire, clay, glass eyes, and wood for dummies just drew me in straight away. I’ve learnt a
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The woman woke up and felt the empty space next to her on the bed. There was no clock in the room, but she could tell by the lack of noise in the Fuhrerbunker that it must be the dead of night. As she rose and went toward the door, a low growl came from
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The unbearable pain in my head, blood dripping down the back of my skull, sticking to my neck and shoulders made for tough going. I didn’t give up; I forged ahead. Necessity dictated I go on. Thank God for the full, bright moon showing me a path of travel. Yeah, right! A path did not
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