Tales to provoke your faith is there a force that is beyond our control or is it our outer self that Seeks to connect within the realms of love and hope.

WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2013WINNER OF THE SPECSAVERS POPULAR FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014WINNER OF THE BETTY TRASK PRIZE 2014‘I’ll tell you what happened because it will be a good way to introduce my brother. His name’s Simon. I think you’re going to like him. I really do. But in a couple of pages he’ll be dead. And he was never the same after that.’There are books you...

BB Delgado has obtained full and exclusive access rights to the time-travelling exploits and sexploits of a 'Whisperer,' numbers of whom can be found everywhere in time but who are as yet unknown to us. In this exclusive series BB Delgado relates the incredible stories told to him in complete secrecy by a 'Whisperer.' He does not know the end of the story. He might be the story; you might be the story. Have fun finding out..***Their bodies explored each other, skin against o...

When the next door neighbor split from her husband she consoled herself in loud music - one song, full volume to drown out the crying of the baby, 24 hours a day. The only other person to suffer was the writer of this monologue.This is a script and can be used as an audition piece for actresses, it is a 'one person play', set in the interview room at the police station.This monologue has been written for performance. As you read, you become embroiled in the anguish of the c...

A coffin isn't always a final destination. It certainly wasn't for Lacey. Murdered, Lacey spends her days as the unseen occupant of a showroom coffin. At night, though, when the lid is closed, she is once again wrapped in a rug and covered with cement, reliving the horror of her death. Until the night another body is dropped into her coffin. (2500-word short story)

My father's mother was not a nice woman. As kids we'd listen to the tranny while planning how to bump off Granny. It never came to anything, of course. Until the day in June when my sister and her partner, Oily Phil, came to tea …

Denzil is the only kid in the school without a pair of Rainbow Boots. So he pretends he's waiting for a special handmade pair. As the lies pile up, what will Denzil do when he can't pretend any more? School comedy.Highly readable, exciting books that take the struggle out of reading, Wired Connect encourages and supports reading practice by providing gripping, age-appropriate stories for struggling and reluctant readers or those with English as an additional langua...

Petrushka is part of Russian folklore, but is not a folk tale. It is in the European tradition of 'Harlequin' and 'Punch', performed in a puppet theatre at travelling fairs.Petrushka is tired of being a clown in a puppet show. He wants to save pretty ballerina from Strongman and take her in his arms far, far away. His mind is made up and, encouraged by Skeleton, the next day he challenges his rival to a duel. But he's no match for Strongman and ends up in a lifeless, crumpled heap....

'Below the Bollocks Line' first appeared in Mirror Shards (Extending the Edges of Augmented Reality), Volume One; review from 'The New Podler Review of Books':"For me, the 2011 winner, hands down, was Mirror Shards. This anthology, about the impact of augmented reality upon society, featured a diverse array of authors. Indie author, Thomas Carpenter, assembled the stories from both traditionally published and indie writers and published it under his Black Moon Books imprint. The en...

following on from 'killing a chav' this new very short story 'killing a suit' takes us further into the darkness of our narrator as he comes across a 'suit' in need of assistance. but despite the efforts made to help him the suit responds, in our narrator's eyes, in a way that justifies some copious use of ultra-violence.hate city boys and politicians? well here is the story for you.

Nelly is a simple, ordinary girlthat is, until late one strange night, when she just happens to be lying awake in bed. On this night, while looking out her window, Nelly sees a shadow. She decides to go to her window to see whats casting the shadow and meets Ockleberry. He is a Wigglemot, a small troll who lives under a scraggly bush on the far edge of Nellys garden. Though surprised to meet such a creature, Nelly accepts Ockleberry as her new friend, and they soon set off on their first a...