by Sophie Meads | Apr 25, 2009 | Stories
Dense air blossoms in the drawer to which I am confined. Claustrophobic heat nestles between the layers, like a mouse. I am at the bottom of the hierarchy. Forgotten. Left to dwell upon my own neglect. I am a messenger of dark news for this girl whose lifetime is...
by Derek Pattison | Apr 22, 2009 | Stories
WAR War, once waged has an impetus of its own, and the outcome, and the manner in which it is concluded could never be envisaged while it lasts. There was no doubt that the war was all but over, the enemy defeated, depending from which side it was viewed; but the...
by Sophie Donne | Apr 22, 2009 | Stories
One day when Samantha Rings, a perculiar girl with long, wild, wavy hair, woke up to the pitter patter of rain on her window sill something mysterious was in the air. Samantha crept down stairs to find her older brother Danny asleep at the kitchen table. “Wake up...
by Anwen Hayward | Apr 20, 2009 | Stories
She had not wanted him to go to war in the first place. To her, the idea of war was an archaic and primitive one, and could only end in the complete destruction of everything for which it had begun, and the thought of her Tony being shipped right into the middle of it...
by Steve Morris | Apr 20, 2009 | Stories
“Just look at the state of him. Good grief. What were you thinking of? This is serious, you fool.” “I’m telling you he is the best!” I replied. We both watched Hayden in the mess. Seemingly oblivious to us, he sat as always in this same position, at the same table...
by Ashley Roden | Apr 18, 2009 | Stories
A tanned eight year old boy raced across the torrid sand with only his worn thin sandals as insufficient protection. In front of him a frayed football glided like an astronaut over the surface of the moon, almost as if the desert surrounding the boy was free from the...
