Increasingly adrift in life, a man reflects on his relationships with the people closest to him while he ponders a solution to his disquiet.

Lucy wakes on a house she does not recognise, next to a man she doesn't know. It is only when Mrs McCready comes to the door that she begins to understand what has happened, and how long ago...

A reunion with an old flame leads Meg into an adventure where she meets with both success and catastrophe.

Two goddesses meet on a beach.

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.

Jael tells what really happened when her husband Heber's old mate Sisera dropped in. Not quite what you read in the Song of Deborah.

Keith's obsession with naming things, and with Gerda the newspaper seller outside his office, leads him into danger.

A mother narrates the sad and peculiar tale of how her young daughter's body gradually disappears from her own eyes - everyone can see her daughter, except the daughter herself.