Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Fifty Three
Helena sat down at the bedside, handed over more grapes, a small bag containing some of his things, razor, tooth brush, that sort of thing. He was smiling at her in a lop-sided way. “I [more…]
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Fiction
War Crimes Part Twenty-Nine – Edge, The Skeletal Grasp From The Past
Day 4 Horace Cutler was as irritable as a hungry grizzly bear with haemorrhoids the following morning and he was in no mood for any self-pity from Edge. “Did you have breakfast this morning, son, [more…]
Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Fifty Two
“Sam, I want you to tell me exactly what happened in there, while I was in the office.” Alan had decided to wait, let them all get some rest, regain some perspective, himself especially, get [more…]
Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Fifty One
They were walking back the five miles from the village where the new American girl was staying with an older married couple like Martha and Iltud, children no longer at home, who were paid by [more…]
Literature
War Crimes Part Twenty-Eight – Edge, Destruction of a Witness
Day Three It was a blustery day and driving rain rattled the windows of the Sennelager Courts Martial Centre. The weather seemed to match Edge’s mood perfectly, anxiety twisting like a nest of vipers in [more…]
Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Fifty
He was lost, could be walking in circles in this featureless desert forever, neither hot nor cold, no real sensations here other than the ones he felt in his mind, no perception of time at [more…]
Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Forty Nine
Later that morning ‘old’ Ted left what was becoming part of his daily routine, another COBRA meeting. They were starting to get properly scared now, especially when he told them that the arson attacks were [more…]
Literature
War Crimes Part Twenty-Seven – Edge, Crime and Punishment
Edge was mooching around the military port at Akrotiri, waiting for the Malcom Club wagon to pitch up for some tea and a bun. He had been helping the RLC guys chisel the rust off [more…]
Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Forty Eight
It was bad, not inevitably terminal, but beyond her ability to fix properly. No trace of heart damage, but the bullets, as these modern horrible ones seem designed to do, had fragmented on hitting the [more…]
Fiction
The Unseen Path- Part Forty Seven
A few feet above them in a subsidiary attic specifically set aside for hideaways like him, Suleiman al-Libani heard the accented English-speaking voices. One sounded Antipodean, another unrecognisable. He had made it out of London [more…]
Literature
War Crimes Part Twenty-Six – Edge, This Sporting Life
The regiment moved from Northern Ireland to Cyprus in 1991 and in the September, an extremely promising fly-half, Lance-Corporal Edge was selected to play for the 3rd Infantry Brigades rugby tour of Germany. The team, [more…]
Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Forty Six
Eleven o’clock now, all ready to go into town, park by the restaurant just before twelve, make sure there was beer on their breath, ham it up a bit so it would be just another [more…]
Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Forty Five
Her day had dragged like no other she had experienced; she’d had a couple of quick calls from Elaine to say there was no change. How was she keeping? Probably not that much different from [more…]
Literature
War Crimes Part Twenty-five – Edge, First Contact
Lisanelly Barracks in Omagh, County Tyrone was a scattering of old War Department buildings and more modern, but just as dilapidated buildings from the 1960s and 70s. Surrounded by a double security fence and guard [more…]
Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Forty Four
“I’m sorry Ladies and Gentlemen,” said the Director of MI5, surprising the other attendees of COBRA with the heat of his emotion, “but I don’t think you fully understand the implications of last evening’s incidents. [more…]
Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Forty Three
Where was he? Over an hour late, no replies to texts. After her cousin had left she had spent the day working, then getting ready and then cooking something special for him, even getting out [more…]
Literature
War Crimes Part Twenty-four – Edge, Template for a Life
This is fiction. You know the drill… Billy caught up with Mark in the locker area, opposite the ground floor Lavs. Billy was a slightly plump kid so it was no surprise that he was [more…]