He used to be afraid of flying until a hypnotist gave him the skills to defeat the terror and imagine he was anywhere else. He still wasn't sure how it worked, but he no longer wondered how the aircraft got up in the air, and therefore didn't worry that it would drop like a brick. It was just aft...
Maggie dropped her laptop, a travel bag and box on her desk. "I'm just dumping these and then I am really not here." "Ah, you might have to be," Carmel said, waving a hand to get Maggie's attention. "A man has been waiting to see you for five hours. He was here most of yesterday too." "A man, ind...
It's late one Friday, the dancehall's makeshift. Outside there's snow, and a long old war. Piano notes and cigarettes thicken the air like the hundred soldiers in their damp uniforms, like the perfumed shopgirls in flowery dresses throwing back their heads to bite at the night with their lipstick...