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There was not much blood. Small bodies have little blood anyway, but small, starved bodies have less. Or perhaps it just clots quicker.

The tiny lifeless corpse hung on the barbed wire and…

The old man sat on the edge of his bed and belched loudly. There were exactly one hundred and fifty-eight unopened bottles of port on the floor, each one silently screaming at him to drink the…

Her lips brushed the lipless mouth of the skeleton. Her breath, hot and full of life and passion, burnt into the dead bone.

I looked until my eyes fell out, and felt about like a drowning man reaching for a banana lounge. But only empty pools of discarded soup tins looked back.

I tried to touch her – not her ski…

I laughed at voodoo. Always have, always will. At least, I thought I always would. But I was wrong! God, how wrong I was!

I hear the wind in the dead of night, and on it a million voices ride,
A world is crying out for help; vainly crying out for help,
But will it be denied?

Please forgive, dear reader, the shortness of this monogram, but circumstances necessitate brevity. Even as I write I know that they are coming for me and that I shall soon be captured.

My …

Here be dragons – proceed with caution.

That’s what the sign said though I didn’t believe it. Well who would? In the twenty-first century, in a major city, in reality …. well, it’s ridi…

It’s true what they say – a comic’s best friend is his banana!

"What the hell are you all doing?" screamed Pinky Ponky Poo Piddly Ping Ping, Queen of the Pixies.

All the hairs on the witches pussy stood on end.
The vampire bit his lip.
The Zombie turn…

Viagra Fool.

The old man lay very still on the bed. His grey hair hung from the sides of his head like silver threads. His face was passively relaxed and showing little of the stresses and strains that ha…

“You just wouldn’t believe it because I know I can’t or couldn’t because of course it happened to me and when it happens to you then you just know it’s true – anyway, this is the way it is, see…

I shot the Radio Star
But video killed the deputy.

"Don’t piss me about Doc." The man was serious, but not threatening.

The Doctor regarded the man thoughtfully. "I’m going to give it to you straight 74276059" he said. "Not because you’re…

Chapterette One

He clicked on the send button and sat back, satisfied. Every day there seemed something for him to comment on, and usually it involved kids. They were being murdered, abuse…

Aint easy. Nope. Aint easy.

See, the object, well that’s well clear aint it. Simple. The Cheese. Don’t have to be a rat to know cheese. The cheese is the goal. The result. The big tic…

It did not appear to return her attentions. Only stand there, unmoved. Yet in that unmotion, it was clear that normality had been set aside. For a time.

Her lips brushed the lipless mouth…

So this was Paris. I’d always wanted to come, always intended to come – just never got around to it I suppose. Then I met Danielle when she came over on holiday – it was nothing serious, we j…

And there was menace.