‘Is she even in the world?’ Millie’s Aunt Serenity asked Millie’s mother, Joy.
‘Of course she is,’ replied Joy, counting the loops on her knitting needles.
‘Well, there’s obviously something wrong with her. You should take her to a psychiatrist.’…
Mr Pop-Pop-Poppity Pop begins every day at 6 am shooting at rabbits. The blasts from his shotgun shatter each morning. Then the new neighbours’ four dogs start barking as soon as their owners drive off to work. The man across …
In the staffroom Bev waved a packet of ginger kisses under her colleagues’ noses. “Get a whiff of these. They’re to die for.”
Saffron took one. “First ginger kiss I’ve had in years. My father used to make them. …
Simone had asked seu Pedro to bring Marcus this morning to help him lift the cover off the drain to find the source of the smell. But seu Pedro arrived for work alone and agitated. He filled the frame of …