‘There are two things you need to know from the beginning. First, Billy Everest has never, ever said a word. And second, sometimes waterslides are as dangerous as they look.’ Eleph...

'But a regular brush can't beat a wand. Nothing beats a wand! Except for maybe an easel. Fired at close range. But we'll get to that.' Herein lies an occasionally depraved but larg...

'It felt like she was finally at the fun end of a kite. Like running, swimming and carnival rides all rolled into one.' Risky Rosie nutcase is stuck to a world that does not get he...

'Electric curly hair, eyes like blue milk. I looked at her through the rain and thought, "Yeah. It would be nice."' Brian is, well, he's a chump. This is his first-person account o...

'It's the airlock, thought Daniel. It's always the airlock.' Sci-fi nerd Daniel Sky floats towards an inevitable and agonising death, and the Astronaut Adrift undergoes four strang...

'And there are three voices in your head. Yes. No. And me, who is of course really just you but, you know, semantics.' Take the Money is an at-times self-involved and convoluted Se...