Terry walked past the sign. Then he stopped and stepped back, and read the sign again. Yep.
“Buck bucks for a buck!”
Whilst he was mid-stare a disheveled man approached, leaning on a fence post. “He will, you know.”
“Who will?”
The man waved his hand behind him. A deer stood in a paddock, calmly eating grass. It was [...]
Byron stared out the round ships porthole at the gas giant beyond, its ring illuminated by the blue sun. It looked almost like something out of science fiction, one of the old serials from the twentieth century.
Of course, in those serials everyone had enough to eat.
Frederic sat down beside him. “Rough music abroad tonight.”
Byron frowned [...]
Aeron watched the ticking clock, the minute hand twitching with an audible clank, down towards its end, to his end.
Well, his probable end anyway. Especially if this essay was not completed.
He didn’t understand the emphasis. He was here to be a wizard, not a damn writer.
A sound on the edge of his conscious awareness. He [...]
Old Sir Basil isn’t all that old – he’s not young, but he has a sort of timelessness about him. I’m pretty certain he’s not really called Basil, and he’s definitely no Sir.
He blinked, peering at me over his handlebar moustache. Any other man of his age and style reacting like that and I would [...]