Month: June 2021

It begins with the anomaly, an arc of particles stretching from the Sun to Venus emitting a precise infrared frequency, an oddity to be observed and analysed but

At the edge of the forest stands Gantalow Lodge, all wood, antlers and hazard tape, last outpost beyond which entry is prohibited to the public during the epidemic

“I’m just trying to help,” Dwight tells the man he found foraging in a back alley; the words are true, but it’s not homeless man he’s trying to

Luke picked the wrong day to collect his prescription, lucky shirt notwithstanding, caught up in an armed robbery with good intentions and bad execution, Blake intending to seize

There’s a new broom sweeping clean at music video channel Culture, the suits downstairs having sent Grant Madison to break the news that executive vice president in charge

The ghosts do not rest easy in the dreams of Courageous Chung; they are chatty, troublesome and persistent – and hungry. Challenged by his friends to spend the

There are laws and there are rules; those who break the law will be pursued and arrested by the police, but the unwritten rules operate in a wider

It is in her nature to resist, to defy what is expected of her, first in allowing herself to be seduced by an employee of her father, then

Friends lie to each other. Husbands lie to their wives, wives lie to their husbands, and both lie to their children. But most of all, everyone lies to

Notting Hill, London West 11; summer is gone and the brightness and optimism of the swinging sixties is a dawn yet to break over the city, Joe Beckett