Crime Fiction / Murder Mystery
This is a guest post by A. J. Evley. Please see the author’s links if you enjoyed this piece.
The phone rings at twenty past eight while I’ve got my arms elbow deep in the washing up. I tap the loudspeaker with my driest finger.
“Marion Turner?”
“Speaking.”
“DC Dana Hartfield, Thames Valley cold case unit. Sorry to call so late…
(more…)Fantasy / Dark
This is a guest post by Hephzibah Ojochenemi. Please see the author’s links if you enjoyed this piece.
There once was a girl called Olivia, every night she would sneak off into the forest.
Dancing with the foxes under the moonlight.
Once the sun rises, she hurries back to bed before her…
(more…)General Fiction
This is a guest post by Grace. Please see the author’s links if you enjoyed this piece.
Everything is beige, except the sunlight on my blue denim skirt. A couple, I assume, in fleeces and jeans and round glasses, kiss outside.
I wonder as I scribble in my tatty old notebook, when did the shape of…
(more…)General Fiction
This is a guest post by Untangled by Fazilat. Please see the author’s links if you enjoyed this piece.
There is something strangely comforting about cafés.
Not because of the coffee, though that certainly helps. I think it is because of the way so many little lives exist in the same room without ever really…
(more…)General Fiction
This is a guest post by Sid. Please see the author’s links if you enjoyed this piece.
Okay. So. Coffee. I don’t know who invented this miracle liquid. But they deserve a medal. The first time I had it. I ascended. No. That’s too gentle a word. I launched. I transcended dimensions. My heart pounds like it has just discovered anxiety. I can hear my own thoughts in surround sound. I’m jittering. I am speed. Love this. People often say…
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