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  • Christmas in Sam’s Restaurant

    “We’ve cleaned, Chef”, she snapped back. She knew what he was feeling because she was feeling it too. Christmas week and she was already planning where to work next. My dear reader, it was Christmas week and as usual Carl, the Chef-Patron was in a tumultuously bad mood. The restaurant had been decked with all…

  • A Christmas Hope

    Christmas Eve had come at last, and the house was festooned with decorations. Granny Bacon had called it ‘gaudy’ when she came to visit. Sean was fairly sure that this meant it was completely bloody brilliant. Part 1 It was two weeks before Christmas Eve, and there was no Mum to be seen or felt…

  • McDonald-Sayer Turns Away From His Dream

    “If I’d wanted revolutions, I would have hired a Cuban,” he had joked, weakly.

  • O’Keefe and the Maltese

    He’d lay out a solution using his own code. I’d remind myself never to wrong-side him. Never.

  • Revenger’s Tales – John and Gordon

    Revenge makes you right and wrong simultaneously. Something tells you that what you want to do is wrong but by doing it, by completing their Revengers’ Tale, the world will be set right.

  • The Rimmingtons

    No one close by heard the single gunshot crashing from the wardroom. No one was there to soften the blow as Glyde’s badly damaged head slammed into the table.

  • Don’t call him Satan

    You snake! You dog! You dirty snitch. My brother’s got 15 years in prison because of you…

  • Sports: for People Who Hate Sports

    Any Winter Sport is immensely entertaining because it will show you people far more wealthy than you will ever be injuring themselves badly.

  • The Wallington Shocker

    “You would like to know as much about the creature who pulled the triggers, tied the knots, hammered the nails and wielded the knife. I imagine that you have your own theories on the pairings of the civilians, the note, the relationship between the eight and the reason for choosing Wallington above all other villages.

  • The Poet’s Wife Writes

    I became intensely jealous about exactly what was happening during those lunches.