A traveller emerges into the arrival hall of Birmingham Airport. He has attracted no little attention from his fellow passengers …
Author: Chris Short
Baggage
Derek was racking his brains yet again. In any spare moment, or while driving, or walking, his mind would always …
Betty and Joan do the crossword
MC: Ladies and gentlemen, please give a warm Edinburgh welcome to two ladies making their debut tonight on the comedy …
Fun with fines
I was only trying to help, but it seemed that the Library staff have their own peculiar system for putting …
Poets’ Corner
Tonight was the night of the Poetry Club dinner and Maureen was dreading it. As she and her husband got …
Twenty
You’re twenty. Taken in your seventh year and now restoredTo family and friends who gave up hope so long ago.The …
Hoard
Earth heaved you inexorably closer to our world,By millimetres each decade it raised you up.The once-oiled hide that kept you …
Opal fruit
The Opal Fruits are laid out on my desk in rows, each row of a single colour. I am planning …
The foal
One midsummer night a fine new foal was born, just as a cold-coffee coloured crack of daylight appeared along the …