It never arrived. They said it would be replaced, well it was, sort of, but it wasn’t what the islanders were expecting; my father was....

They cut off his hands in that first flush of morning snow. He watched with curiosity, as the dark crimson, oozed down the table leg,...

The hearts hung in bags of their own blood roughly five centimetres apart. Like two forgotten socks in the rain, they had become mishapen...

“Raymond! Can you hear me Raymond?” He could hear a faint tap tapping on the window behind him. He had fallen asleep again wondering...

A man walks into a pub, his face bloody, eyes caught between a vacant stare and shock. His hands twitch at his sides as more deep red...

“I remember the corridor, coz I was gonna put me otter down there and the shower on the left, the handrail was a little bit up and to the...

Kate stood quietly amongst the mourners, their rhythmic gestures responding to grief that wasn’t theirs to share. A sea of black canvass...

I am standing waist-deep in excrement, I feel it moving around under the surface of the water, sloshing up against my chest. I stand as...

The dung beetle pushed the tiny ball of faeces backwards towards its home, she had seen him do it every day for the last year. It was the...

Red threaded through the whites of his eyes as his grip around my throat tightened. His determined face blemished by anger was again...

The duvet smelt funny, like toffee apple with a hint of banana, it wasn’t unpleasant but it was unfamiliar and unwelcome. He had no...

As Simon approached our table, my sister commented that he looked different again somehow. Last Sunday his face was sallow, he was...

Ben folded up the letter into a paper aeroplane and threw it at the wall, it fell and missed the bin completely. He continued with the...