Driving rain hammered at Roland's armour, as it had done for the last few days and nights. The dark sky roiled and boomed with deafening crashes of unrelenting thunder as angry forks of lightning stabbed down at the earth. Sleep had been a lost cause, even when he did manage to find a rocky outcropping or enough tree cover for him and his horse. He no longer knew how long it had been since the rain began, or whether it wa...

“Goddamn it,” Maya muttered, staring at the glaring ‘DECLINED’ message on her screen. She let the phone drop onto her mattress and rolled over to scream into a pillow. She knew there was no money left in her account, but the insult of having to actually face that fact was a bridge too far. All this over a stupid pair of shoes she didn’t even need anyway. “Hey,” whispered one of her roommates from the doorway. “Shit, are y...

Have you ever wondered who a doctor calls when he gets sick? Or who cleans a dentist's teeth? What happens when a therapist gets the ol' gloomies? They phone a friend, obviously. "Hey, you working tonight?" Claire checked over her shoulder to make sure her last visit of the day had actually shown himself out, catching a glimpse of his elbow as the door closed behind him. "Hello to you too, stranger." "Sorry," Joe muttered...