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I have 120 stories published in
10 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 113987 times
and 29 of my stories have been cherry picked.
Brian Cross
My stories
The Scarlet Web, Prologue
Shadows shimmered around the subway walls like dying flames from a candle as she hurried into the faltering light. The other end of the underpass was scarecely visible and seemed a quarter mile away, though she knew it could be no more than a hundred metres. She'd known there was somebody behind her because she could hear the rat-tat-tat of footsteps on stone as she'd headed down the ramp...
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A Barrel Of Rum
The heat had been building up all morning and my tiny room in the inn's attic was stifling; I felt I was breathing in soup. I headed downstairs needing air but outside it was almost as still and stale, just a flutter of a breeze...
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Stormfly - Chapter Two
"You creep," those words smashed into my chest with the force of a blacksmith's blow. Was that what she really thought of me?
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Stormfly - prologue and Chapter One
PROLOGUE I suppose it began with the summer of '63. Annie, Tom and me; three fourteen year olds deep in the Suffolk countryside, having a picnic in a clearing surrounded by knee high corn swaying in a humid breeze. In the distance the whirr of my uncle's combine, pale sunlight reflecting from its green sides.
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Watching You, Chapter One
Puddles of oil shone like demon eyes. The faltering lights of the depot's access ramp had exploded into life for a second before dying away as quickly as the engine of Kelly Stafford's car...
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