To begin with Mad Dog was the centre of attention, but it wasn’t long after his friends had written on his plaster that they started forgetting him. They’d go down to the barge den without wondering if there was any way they could get him there too. Or go out to play football and never even ask i...
I was overwhelmed with guilt for having been away for so long, but they leapt all over me as if they bore no grudge. We divided the burgers between us and wolfed them down. Then we set off again. I was glad to see the lights of Hereford disappearing. For evermore, I’d remember it as the place whe...
Only when she awoke properly did she realise that it came from outside. It was morning. The light was seeping coldly through her windows – and something terrible was happening. Abren tumbled from her bed and tore out on to the balcony. And there beneath her on the river, in the grey morning light...