Two Mercedes saloons rocketed forward into the gap, as wisps of smoke and dust covered the bodies of the Saudi guards, the blood strangely brown and moist as the dust coated and disguised the horror of the broken flesh. The tyres slammed and bumped over the rubble and torn bodies and burst throug...
No matter where I roam, On land or sea or foam, You can always hear me singing this song, Show me the way to go home. The children clapped their hands. ‘Sing another one, Granny.’ She was aware that half their enjoyment came from the fact that bedtime was being put off. ‘All right. Just one more....
Jack, for all his faults, had never been a violent man. He had always been kind and helpful to everyone. And of course he’d always thought he was kind and helpful to her. Despite the constant agony he suffered, he never complained or allowed the pain to keep him from going to any lengths to help ...
Dazed, she grabbed at the table to steady herself. ‘Kirsty, it’s me, it’s me.’ The wind snatched the voice and squeezed it into a whisper before the silhouetted figure in the doorway darted into the house. Eyes strained with horrified disbelief, Kirsty watched white fingers lock the kitchen door ...
She did not want to get a house in Bishopbriggs simply because, as she insisted, ‘It’s such a lovely place. So near the Campsie Hills. Yet it’s only fifteen or twenty minutes away from the centre of town in the bus. And there’s the railway station as well. There’s even a nice wee cinema. What cou...