Unsettling

  • Collateral Damage

    I had the house to myself, Jemma and Fiona were at school and Tom was still away with his regiment. This was our first home, we’d been married for ten years but always lived in quarters – adequate, but no matter how hard I’d tried they’d always felt like they belonged to someone else. “I…

  • Face2Face

    One small lamp pinpoints light directly onto the keyboard, the monitor gives out an eerie glow – the rest of the room is in darkness. The only sound, tip tap tip tap as the keys are hit repeatedly, the index and middle fingers on each hand as accurate as any touch typist. His head does…

  • Museum Piece

    “Miss Miss, look a sarcoughycos” The small boy shouted excitedly. “No Oni, it’s a coffin, keep up now.” A woman in a pink tabard with a school logo blazoned on the back began shepherding boys in grey shorts to the next exhibit. Couldn’t help myself, “You’re right, it is a sarcophagus,” I said, “That lady…

  • Colours That Suit

    Original Susan Tate Illustration by Michael N Green   Susan’s feet hurt. Why had she decided to wear those new shoes to work? She could not think. Come to think of it, why had she bought them in the first place? She knew why – they had called out to her ‘buy us, we are…