Crowley’s Toad (Ode to Oxford and Cowley Road) Epigraph - “Very nice place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.” - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

Experiment in genre 1: 'horror'...not a very nice story, so be warned...criticism most welcome!

The pair of violet eyes that drifted onto the trio were impossibly wide with alarm and shock.

A conversation between a grand-mother and her granddaughter when their country, India, is celebrating the fiftieth year of its independence.

So he took the piece of paper. 'What could he have wanted me to know?' It read:

She was dozing in the store front recess, wedged in by cardboard. The scumnut ducked into the same doorway and let loose a stream of urine inches from her feet.

Take care if you go fishing, the oceans may hold a darkness that just could get on your line