Tag: Short Story
-
The Loose Page
We pieced the old book back together as best we could… it was terribly damaged after being stuffed inside the fireplace for so long; it must’ve been there for at least a hundred years, the fireplace had been closed off, bricked up and had another wall built over it when the study was built before…
-
Bride
The church was as she remembered it the first time. Cold. Echoey. She could hear the choir, in her mind’s eye, and if she looked through this eye she could see them standing below the large colourful window. When she looked at this through her normal vision, she saw the ruins, the crumbling remains of…
-
Not So Cold
‘Oh, Ognar,’ Myrtle sighed as she looked out of the window, which was rapidly steaming up, ‘I don’t believe it… after all these months of hotter than hot weather, we now get this sudden out of the blue cold snap which has caused this.’ She clasped her hands beneath her chin as she watched the…
-
One of Those Moments
I’m not sure if it was the low ceiling, the subdued lighting, the heat, or the boring, monotonous voice of the man, the ‘tour guide’, leading the group, that made me start to feel unsteady on my feet. Of course, it could also be a combination of everything plus this heavy cold, or rather, man-flu,…
-
Shared Space
Ig’s cave made all his neighbours turn green with envy. He even had one of the new-fangled watchboxes, which lit up the corner of the round room perfectly. There was no window in this room, so it was always warm, another reason why his neighbours were always standing on the threshold. Ig decided he needed…
