A shopping cart mysteriously arrives on the front lawn. Its arrival is shrouded in mystery.But as mundane and uncomplicated as the object is, its presence has a profound and lasting effect.A short story about the search for a meaningful existence.

Lying underneath the floorboards of Delphine's home, he watches her. He doesn't know why, he doesn't know anything, but he is compelled to watch. The intimate synergy between someone imprisoned and someone free, but who is trapped in her own dark emotions. This is a story about depression, how tough it is to feel connected and even when there is someone right next to you, how you feel so isolated and alone and helpless.

Victoria finds herself caught in a twisted isolation. She has had to adapt to survive. But leaving the comfort and security of her home behind, she succumbs to vulnerabilities.Victoria fights to stay one step ahead. But memories get stirred up, adding extra weight to her current struggles.Emotions do nothing for her. Family does not provide the comfort it should.What has been following also appears to have fully caught up with her.

Alex had wanted change, had wanted to be noticed, but there was a price to pay. Increasing horrors mount for her in the aftermath of her procedure.The crawling sensations inside her give rise to an ominous blackness which overcomes her and leads to terrifying consequences.The paranoia from the shadows that Alexis glimpses trailing her every move is heightened when she hears them in her flat.With her domain no longer a safe place, she has only one choice. She has to run...

Jimmy receives an unexpected letter of invitation. But it's more than that, it is finally a way out of the coffin that he's been stuck in for the last six months. But what awaits him on his escape? This short story was adapted from a previous idea I had about interviewing the Devil's Administrator. It changed and transformed into a very short, light-hearted twist of what could lie beyond

Not every family gathering is one full of joy and cheer. Erin stares bleakly at the walls of ice which exist between members of her family, particularly those between herself and her sister. It started years ago in childhood but then the Nut Stuffing and the unwanted gift under the tree takes it all to another level.

After another night of heavy drinking, Archibald fails to notice some important clues around him as he faces up to the daily grind again. They are clues which would have warned him of impending danger. His wife Janet however, is feeling on top of the world with everything in place to take care of some important household business. But her devious master-plan to make sure that Archibald never finds his way back home again fails dramatically because of extenuating events.

Clay's life has been one of control. A life planned and everything in order. Order to everything, from walking the same path every day, to a rigid shaving ritual. But when the Coffee Bang happens, everything in Clay's world gets turned upside down and nemesis Cerberus starts to finally get its teeth into him. An ever increasing chaos starts affecting his life to the point where he is no longer in control, and certainly no longer in control of what he sees in his reflection in the mirror. I...

The Earth has been consumed by the rising waters. Land has become scarce. A solution to overcrowding was necessary. Has salvation been found off-world, a chance for civilisation to start over on Second Earth? A yearning to experience the Earth one last time before departure, leaves one Military Guard facing the crushing weight of loneliness. But not of the kind that she imagined.

A short story about how fate may control our lives. A lucky penny is found and it helps keep the routine of the protagonist's walk home, uneventful. That is even despite the tragic wreckage that plays out in front of them. How much luck is there to go around?

Jonas has just lost wife, so he turns to some comfort of solitude by taking a walk in the forest. The forest is familiar to him, but the creature which he discovers lying on the forest path is not. Jonas, through his grief, is spurred into life as he sets off on a mission to do something for the creature that he couldn't for Jolene, that is save it. As he searches the forest frantically for help, all he finds is setbacks which seems to push him further and further off the track to salvatio...

The falling degrees of Archroy's ill-fated journey into town. Dazed and confused in the white world of snow, Archroy looks to shake off his fever and hangover but the winter weather is his biggest enemy. The townfolk are no help either.