Al, can you hear me?’ Al was draped over the servery table like a crumpled dishcloth. Stormy shook his shoulder. ‘Al, please.’ ‘What is’t? What yerwant?’ ‘I want your flying horse, Al.’ Al shrugged him off. ‘Want what? Do what?’ He peered at Stormy from under half-closed lids. ‘Please open your e...
She cleaned the stove and swept the floors. She began digging in the space behind the apartment where they grew turnips and potatoes, saying, ‘We must have a pond. Running water. A river would be good.’ Crystal brought water from the well. She set the bucket beside her mother so that in the eveni...
She didn’t flap off so much as got hurt. Couldn’t fly, if you see what I mean. I don’t know where she is exactly at this precise moment in time but I am on the job, I am. My personal ackom-pliss is also on the lookout for her, also a certain Miss Minter who is influenshall in these parts. We are ...
The shadows crept up closer. Blackness seemed to nudge at her elbows. ‘It’s awfully dark …’ ‘Yeah,’ said the rockgoyle. Instantly the sledge began to glow and gleam like moonlight. The snow became tinged with silver. ‘Special night metal,’ the rockgoyle said. He leered at her over his shoulder. ‘...
She found a cardboard box and cut a doorway in it so Kitty could squeeze in and out. She put in an old jumper and an old cuddly monkey. Kitty went straight inside and rolled on her back and tussled with the monkey. When the monkey was dead she ran in and out chasing her tail. Ruby watched, thinki...