The reasons for Emma's illness and for her decision to allow life in, rather than die, are intertwined and involve the beginnings of her feelings of belonging, of safety and of competence to be in the...
her eyes are unfathomable to me, hostile, even, as if she had removed herself to a place where I cannot reach her - somewhere I cannot know.
I was a very lonely child and it's funny but the first word that comes to my head is starved. I felt starved of affection, starved of love and I felt that it wasn't OK to ask for it. Maybe there was a...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
Taffy. He thinks about taffy. He thinks it would take his teeth out now, but he would eat it anyhow,...
All our human endeavours are like that, she reflected, and it is only because we are too ignorant to...
The value of money is subjective, depending on age. At the age of one, one multiplies the actual sum...
In fact, none of us knows how he ever managed to get his LLB in the first place. Maybe they're...
Look, if you say that science will eventually prove there is no God, on that I must differ. No...
Small towns are like metronomes; with the slightest flick, the beat changes.
You say you should have died instead of me. But during my time on earth, people died instead of me,...
But an ink brush, she thinks, is a skeleton key for a prisoner's mind.