Tonight she read a book in bed. Folded herself under cool silks and sought out creatures in shady nooks and crowned herself in anemone and galloped free along the stream, wind caressing her cheeks, dangled fingers in the blue and kicked off her shoes, running barefoot in the grass instead. Most nights, she falls hard asleep. …
I knew it was over when he told me to get away from the grill. Well, he didn’t so much tell me as dig an elbow into my side, while gliding smoothly between me and the sizzling plate, as easily as the chunks of beef had slid onto the skewers this morning. His hair was …
Jimmy decided not to jump, that is all he knew for sure. He had stepped back from the edge. He would stop drinking this time. Now, he shivered at the top of the cliff. The ledge was only a metre of crumbling clay below his feet. Don’t look down. He wrenched himself up over the …