Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Eight
The call connected and was picked up. “Hello, oh it’s you. I was expecting you a while ago. Yes, I was there. They’re pretty bereft really. Whoever was responsible is unknown to them all, no [more…]
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Fiction
Tilda and the Witches 1.1
Tilda and the Witches 1.1 A drama in five acts by Tachybaptus illustrated by Zenobia ACT 1 SCENE 1 The Royal Palace at Purdonium, in the Country of Uraemia. Enter TILDA, Queen of [more…]
Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Seven
Later that morning on their way to the midday meeting Dager related his calls to both local chief constables, given that the car had been found close to the force boundaries. “They both understood the [more…]
Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Six
The man known as Mark had been watching her intently, clearly impatient at Iltud’s diffidence. He broke in. “You’re not going mad, and neither are we, as you will see when well enough. Last night [more…]
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The Unseen Path – Part Five
THURSDAY Alan Dare watched Mohammed Badr wake slowly from his drugged stupor; the man must be dying of thirst, he thought. They were in a large barn, bare and devoid of content other than some [more…]
Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Four
There was a call on one of his secure pay-as-you-go phones. “Abdul, it’s Suleiman here. Amallifely’s been martyred, shot outside his house this morning. The police are all over it and have been searching the [more…]
Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Three
‘Damn Sally, why did she have to go so distant to him now?’ Andy Bowson thought to himself as he sat waiting outside the meeting room in West Midlands Constabulary headquarters later that day. ‘She [more…]
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The Unseen Path – Part Two
Mohammed Badr’s morning run proceeded as usual as he headed out of the city up into the hills on the edge of town; this was going to be a long one, twenty miles at least, [more…]
Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part One
It Begins The man about to die pulled the green framed glass door shut and glanced furtively up and down the street before locking the door and placing the key in his jacket pocket. His [more…]