On the nightbus Finn’s clothes marked him as a stranger, a dove among parakeets. Sal looked at him, twice. Then their eyes met.
The undiscovered map
For years she tried to find the hidden place, the place, the palace, held only in her mind. Then, one day, she stopped looking.
What chairs say
So, shall we begin? As you know, I killed Con, painfully, to become the new Chair. All those in favour? Thank you. Anyone against?
Free to fly
Cerys held the idea tight in her fist. It buzzed and tingled like catching lightning or a tinkerbell. Then she opened her hand.
The Return
Go, go now, with the wind and the rain in your face, go now, look forward, always look forward. And I, I remain, you in my heart.
The missing duck
“Daddy, why did you just say you couldn’t give a duck?”
“Oh – That’s because I’ve lost it and can’t give it to mummy as a present.”
Prediction 2
When I felt the cold sour surge of déjà vu, I knew that I would write ‘Prediction’. The silent man put the mask on my face again.
Prediction
Cerys saw it coming from a way behind her. It whizzed, it whirred, it spun and sparked. She caught the idea and held it tight.
School
The man dragged the holdall through the playground and into the school. Nobody spoke. Later, people said he looked quite normal.
Odyssey
-Remember, our wedding bed was a living olive tree whose roots still drew deep into the earth….
-BUT WHERE WERE YOU LAST NIGHT?
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