This is the prologue of what will be a large collection of short stories that fit into a cohesive storyline. The fragment of Clarity I posted (Clarity is nearly finished now, it's going to be about thirteen thousand words, or there about) will fit in.

This series is tentatively titled Office Demons, something, I hope, will change shortly.


Italics have been lost again, I think. just can't work out how to get the thing to work properly, because someone like me would need the aid of a rosetta stone equivalence to understand HTML....

A shorter short story, about losing what you value most...

A parable concerning self-image and clarity of communication.

Prelude to a novella i am writing. Very much influenced by the writing style of Gao Xingjian.

Do you know, that....?

Channel Z Television is an online soap set in the beautiful county of Derbyshire. For more info click onto the website here...

How small a thing would it take, to change the course of history?

is it a new beginning?

I was there when Gemma was born. I was right there as she struggled to make her appearance into the world at two thirty on a chilly March morning.

Well, are you?

Before the Beginning there was just the Gods in the Heaven. The Gods were the guardians of the Celestial truth. They were Immortals with immense powers.

This is a story I wrote for an American Website. they pay very well which is why it is in American. I submitted this as my christmas article for entertainment and as my contribution to the September 11th appeal.

as I say in the article, apologies to Charles Dickens.

John, they say you are a man to value.
Generations have spoken praise of you.

A true story of a fall-guy of Fate (wearing its red nose)

Dreeeeamss...

It’s in my blood.

It was a good feeling to be young and fresh...

Love that lasts...

The brown paper package was hand delivered to Miss Lucy Sanders, aged 8, of Fourteen Littlewood Park, early on that Thursday morning.

Home thoughts from a grave...

Sarah flicked the lever down to turn left onto the dirt track leading to Bracken Head tarn.

Fragments that are left behind...

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This is part two of my Reading Festival story, make sure you read 'Blades of Grass' first otherwise this won't make sense....(Rated 18)

At one point or another, everybody in the village had been under the Whether.

This was an idea that had been around in my head for the past week, although I think I have bitten off more than I can chew with the number of characters I have introduced. I expect I will add to it from time to time....(Rated 18)

His hand spun on the dowel of the final flight of stairs.

This may have been posted before, but not with the chords. It is one of my own favourites and is quite popular with people I know very well. Originally written for acoustic guitar, but works with electric guitar, try different rhythms to see which works best - say Kinks or Oasis style, if you play the opening chords you may see what I mean :)

A ten minute TV comedy/film shorts script. Skit of the film: boy gets bullied at school, meets mysterious oriental chap who gets him to do a load of household chores and then beats him to a bloody pulp- you hardly need to read it now.

Channel Z Television is an online soap set in the beautiful county of Derbyshire. For more info click onto the website here...

This is about Reading the festival at Reading, rather than reading a book....

If I turned my head, I’d be able to see you, a mere pinprick on the opposite bank.

This one is about a band that I like, that I saw at Reading...

I turned to you this morning but you had gone away

What is a virgin to do when she isn't - quite? Sir Eustace to the rescue again.

I thought about this Friday at the Reading Rock Festival...

God, I've gone all slushy! She is lovely though...

It was Sarah’s first day back at work after the birth of Katie.

For Pioden, bless her little Welsh six inch wings

Another one which deals with friends and unexpected happenings....

For a brief moment you meet someone, but they are gone soon after before you have a chance to talk to them...

Bird on the wing

Don't be so quick to dismiss fables.

The horizon is a dim trick of distances
Whose maze-heat has melted into the river

yet more emails to the boss

Have you got what it takes? The selection process is fraught with pitfalls.

Johnny Walker was a normal little boy with an unfortunate name.

Dale Brown is a former captain in the US Air Force. Born in Buffalo, New York, he now lives in Nevada, a State that, perhaps by coincidence is the location of the top-secret advanced aircraft and weapons facility about which many of his best sellers are centred.

Mr. Srivastava is part of our neighborhood and he has been there throughout my childhood memories.