The sky above them was leaden and she wondered if it always rained at funerals. It would seem unnatural if the sun was beating down, as though the gods were [...]

The view took Caitlin’s breath away. The contrast between the deep blue sky and the terracotta roofs was achingly beautiful. The sunlight bounced off the white tiles of the Duomo [...]

When we were ten we went to stay at our uncle’s house. He wasn’t really our uncle, just a friend of our dad’s. The house was massive. There was a [...]

'A whisky, please.’‘Coming up sir.’‘I needed that.’‘That’ll be £5 please sir.’‘Damn. No money. I need to pop to the cash machine round the corner.’‘I need payment sir or I’ll lose [...]

‘What are you going to go for?’ the tattoo artist asked. Lola continued to flick through the well thumbed folder of options. Each page was protected by a plastic sleeve and [...]