He didn’t return to the bomb-hole until Monday, a beautifully warm sunny day with a mild south-westerly wind, perfect for swimming. Alone, he plunged into the ice-cold water, crawling as far as the mass of tangled brambles, lichen petrified...

I am heavy with child. My breasts are swollen with milk, my abdomen fully distended. I slump on the wicker chair feeling my baby prod my stomach. My man marvels at how I push myself to the utter limits...

‘How big were these jellyfish?’ Tess spread her hands apart more than a foot, ‘Oh, these were big ones, David!’  ***** As if the lurid colour photo and dissected analysis of her on my msn news feed are not enough. The...

They were climbers. He had already reached the pinnacle of wealth. She had yet to climb. But she showed a desire, a hunger to succeed, an inner steel and resilience, to get whatever she needed.Alex needed a girl: somebody...

Kate padded barefoot into the lounge, adorable in his too-big jumper and jogging bottoms. Alex was sitting behind the coffee table in the centre of the curl around sofa. Set out on the table was a veritable feast compared...

Helen hesitated, opened the lid, breathed, and there they were. Bright tall pink strong stalks. Her first forced rhubarb of the season. Reaching for it, she slid her hand along the firmest stalk until she felt the tender base,...

I can’t seem to get Meg out of my mind. At times, my lust for her feels as if she is a leech, sucking the lifeblood out of my heart. For me, at least, our nightly ritual of exploring...

After the bitter chill of Winter, the snow and ice of February, Spring couldn’t come soon enough for Kaitlyn and Madison. Throughout the drab lockdown, the vibrant forest had sustained them, freeing them from its suffocating constraints: online studies,...

He represented an unusual challenge for her. Someone exciting, if different from the norm. She knew this was her last chance to help him, to satisfy him, for him to satisfy her, their last chance to make love. It...

Matariki, Pleiades – the seven daughters of Atlas as the Greeks used to say, or Subaru in the modern Japanese. Like the verb Subaru, in July, we cluster together to celebrate this wonder. We’ve left our group of 300 that three...