She pushes her hip against his. Slender teenage hips, denim-clad and barely there. She can feel a burn beneath the fabric, chafing on her...

I laid it out very carefully this time. I didn’t want to lose any pieces, just in case everyone turned up. Last time, there was only me...

At first, He was charming and kind. Then things started to happen, That made me think, He’s not right in the head. He was becoming...

“God makes you hopeful at 19, at 20, so you have the fire to go out and reproduce; the foolishness to believe the world is a place worth...

She always carried her basket the way they carried water in the old days, perched high on her shoulder like a vessel. He vaguely...

“You know the stolen vehicle from that police chase in the city last week? The one that wrecked with a mother of five? Well, that was...

MONK “None of you are called to cure the broken people in your life,” the monk teaches. “You’re called to care.” Kayla is sitting...

The only sound, other than the baby lion purr of the train, was the screeching of some bird on the horizon line, darting in and out of...

It’s rarely too late and never too early, so the sea is rife with heads and hands, each one too eager to claim what they will inevitably...

Try again, they said, as if it were a school exam or a driving test. As if, somehow, there lay at the root of the problem a lack of...

Olivia flings open the door and retches onto the pavement. With a trembling hand, she wipes her mouth and stumbles out of the car, around...

Two drops of blood found on the bedsheet, the one tossed casually over her shoulder all night, in the one place where she felt small and...

Sharon is a runner. Everyone has a thing they do. That’s her thing. The minute she gets out of bed in the morning she goes for a run. But...