Jigsaw: A couple go to bed, leaving a partially completed jigsaw on the table. Next morning, more of the puzzle has been completed – but there are only two of them in the house. Who is finishing the puzzle and why?
The Game: A band of adventurers gather at an inn after a hard week of adventuring. They decide to play a role-playing game, but one with an interesting twist…
Revenge: Who killed the Hendersons? The answer may surprise you.
Lonely This Christmas: An elderly lady is home alone on Christmas Eve. Then the telephone rings…
Two Angels: On New Year’s Eve, two angels look down on Planet Earth and talk about their plans for humanity.
And the Band Played On: A Tabitha Drake Story: psychic Tabitha, aged sixteen, is seeing Edwardian dead people. Who are they, and what do they want?
The Wedding Pact: A woman is on her way to her wedding. She is marrying an old friend with whom she made a pact years ago, that if neither of them were wed by thirty they would marry one another. What could possibly go wrong?
Easter Eggs: Read this, and you will never look at Easter Egg hunts in the same way again.
Snow Warning: What happens when a couple on a budget ski holiday try to save even more money.
Glenda’s Gnome: There were no witnesses to Glenda’s murder. Not human ones, anyway.
General information
Pages: 118
Published: 25 May 2015
ISBN: 978-1512208955
First page
David emptied the jigsaw pieces onto the table. It was an odd thing for him to do – he hated them, usually, but he had felt the urge to take on the challenge of this one. One thousand little cardboard shapes lay higgledy-piggledy on yesterday’s newspaper, waiting for him to organise them into the picture on the front of the box.
Without thinking, David started the process of picking out the flat-edged pieces that would form the skeleton of the puzzle. His wife Ann came in with the shopping and gave him an odd look. Starting a jigsaw was the last thing she would ever expect to see David doing. Still, she decided it was best not to comment. She busied herself putting away the milk and bread, and then went to vacuum the granny flat they had built for David’s mother.
The reasons Ann would never expect David to pick up a puzzle were evident in his mother’s living space. Apart from a couple of pictures of David as a child, there was not a picture on the wall that was not a completed jigsaw, fixed and framed.
Reasons not to read it
- They’re short stories.
- Some have superheroes in, but they are new ones which aren’t in Marvel or DC. Though some are in Julie Howlin’s novels.
- Some stories have ghosts in.
- Some stories take place in other worlds.
- It has a story about Dungeons and Dragons.
- The Easter Egg story and garden gnome story might give you nightmares.
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