He’d spent the afternoon cooped up indoors changing nappies and cleaning up the kitchen. Nightmare. With his kids they’d made a batch of burnt muffins, a cake that came out soggy in the middle and a load of jam tarts from which the jam seemed to have decided to abandon ship and spread itself all ...
It would soon be over. All Carlo had to do was accept his punishment and they could wake up in the morning and start over. The ride had been at high speed and in a straight line, so they’d either gone south down the A1 or round the Edinburgh bypass. It wasn’t easy to tell in the dark, but he fi...
Without their laughter, the constant tugging at my trousers or the hearing of my name, the world seems an empty place. There’s plenty to sort. Wet paintings hang from a string tied from wall to wall like brightly coloured washing. There’s play-dough to put away and workshe...
Izzy asked Ray while she ironed a pile of clothes as he minded Rose. Ray shrugged. Tilted the baby’s bottle a little higher to get the last of it down into the rubber teat. “You really should get out, you know. See the sights.” Izzy laughed at her words. She looked pretty when she smiled, her eye...
Flecks of shit and blood left all around the rim gave off the stink of a sewerage/chemical mix. Liza dropped the holding tank part of her own toilet, the Porta Potti, and reversed back into the open air, gagging and covering her mouth, wondering how she was going to cope. She stood for a while en...
A dreadful weather forecast, followed by heavy showers of rain have forced their picnic to be an indoor affair. Alice, Cath and Max are all slumped across the sofa in Cath’s living room, legs tangled in a simple knot. They’re eating ice lollies, cheap versions of a Zoom, rocket shaped in three fl...
Something moved from one place to another. Doesn’t matter much what it is as long as it gets there. Danny’s in the business of moving things. Enjoys the regular work and the chance to get out and about. Bags of time in the sun and stacks of duty free. Even gets to try out the merchandise when he ...