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Stealing kids had happened by accident. A leftover one in the backseat of a stolen car had started it. When Helena handed the 4x4 over to Paulo and mentioned the five-year-old, he raised an eyebrow, licked his lower lip lasciviously and added an extra hundred to her share.  It was only as she went to step away with the cash that she realised with sudden clarity the most likely next outcome for the child. Reluctantly dropping her hand from the exit door handle with a sigh, she

Alastor’s remaining eye opened wide as the blade sliced through his windpipe then pinned him across the tiller, separating two vertebrae of his thoracic spine. Lifeblood seeped from his throat into a hovering pewter bowl until it overflowed, dripping to the deck. A sail flapped as a fresh breeze began to stir the plate-glass sea.  As the moon slid out and up from the mist hovering over the water, Verity became visible, hazy like dust. A halo of light from behind her head lent

Good Life Algarve Years ago, Mark and I bought a cottage back in the Algarvian hills behind Faro near the town of Sao Bras de Alportel ....

A story I wrote for our mother many moons ago. I found it saved in a folder of hers as I searched for birth certificates and the like to...

Have you ever thought to yourself, ‘Could I have made a difference, a big difference if I had just begun? If I had made a quality...

The finality of it is what keeps surprising me. That there is no going back, just to clarify, just to see if we could, just to say...

Her thoughts circled round and around, squashing her awareness. She darted here and there under the Oak Tree, lacking focus. ‘I can’t...

People are temporary, by nature evolving. Born as guests where all that is, precedes and succeeds us. Travellers in time and place...

'Doomed, doomed from birth!' Dora repeated the phrase to herself for the umpteenth time as she walked up to the cash till at her local...

Words Have Power Read Aloud by Caroline Anderson Two blackbirds, Seth and Ted, sat on the park gate chewing the fat. ‘Hear any good ones...

Stop Smoking: KickaHabit: With Caroline Stop Smoking In A Snap Beside a towpath, one sunny day, Orace Hare and Rae Rabbit were under a...