Fiction

Unanimous & anonymous

A tryst of pure destiny

Malik’s dew & the bee nymphs

The atonement of Ben Gessar

A man and three women

 

 

 

 

 

 

Plenty of variety here. “Unanimous & Anonymous” traces Ross Denton’s experience of jury duty, and the questions that haunt him about the verdict, as he walks a free man. In “A tryst of pure destiny” a woman who just knows stuff must deal with the consequences of her gift in relation to the man she loves. Horror enters the fray with “Malik’s dew & the bee nymphs” when an estranged husband holidaying alone in the Greek Dodecanese archipelago wakes up naked and aroused, paralysed inside some kind of waxy cocoon; in the 2039 world of “The atonement of Ben Gessar” – torn apart by the death of the woman he loves, Ben risks everything to seek her in the afterlife; and “A man and three women” journeys into the heart of relationship, raising questions of love, honesty and fidelity within the battleground of cohabitation, routine and chronic illness.