The last time I was a mother, I was waving Darnley off in his dinghy. Polished mahogany flashed under an…
The raft is not the vessel I'd hoped for. For a time I had company in the form of terns,…
Nobody could recall an actual date when the island appeared off the coast of Lyme Regis, why it should have,…
Harriet rolled her eyes at her brother’s petulant bleating. She supposed this was about her beating him at real tennis…
Pigger pulled on his clothes like a zombie. These days he didn’t care what he wore; not since Ne—, not…
Olenus waited as patient as time. Up and down the November beach was barren save for the stacks of mossy…
Yes, I remember Luxor… Not the Luxor of limestone cliffs baked almost to glass, where summer nights are filled with…
Dead on seven o’clock, the curtains to the theatre rise. The orchestra’s bows await their cue in pregnant stillness. Marek…
Old Tom, hunched over in a seafront shelter of baby blue wood and stippled white concrete, stared over the salty…
As Provost, I found myself in that agreeable position rare of antiquarian scholars in that my summer was unplanned. I…