Ten flash fictions of last words, last actions, and last loves.

Two goddesses meet on a beach.

It's 'Take Your Father To School Day' and some fathers are better at it than others.

A young woman tries to escape her stifling and superstitious community.

A Soviet composer is trying to write the perfect Socialist Realist symphony, before a knock on the door.

What is a princess to do with unwanted male attention? Perhaps the dark spirit of the river can help. (This ebook also includes an additional story)

Terrible things happen down by the river: it is a place of despair where humans do their worst to each other. Yet it is also a place where ghosts can be laid to rest. In this story, originally published in Umber (2011), the voices of a bereaved 60 year old woman, a teenage boy who’s lost his way in life and a murdered Viking are woven into a dark story of revenge and tragedy.