Castles Over Hampstead
Two girls have named the clouds over Hampstead Heath since they were nine. The summer they turn sixteen, a dazzling first love and a quiet family catastrophe pull them apart. A story about idealism, the hard winter that follows it, and learning what it costs to turn back up for someone.
The Orchard Keeper
In a valley where the river runs slow, a gentle man tends an orchard of young trees and finds the place he is not the wrong thing. Then a cold question takes root among the villagers. A Wildean fable about mercy, suspicion, and the names that other people hand us.
Same Stars Under Different Skies
In a near-future Britain ruled by fear, an alien boy fleeing a dead world is locked alone in a detention cell, stripped of his family and his name. Then a girl on the other side of the glass looks at him with something other than suspicion. Some bonds are forged in cages.
The Music Of The Unwanted
A grey northern town prides itself on being clean, proper, hard. Three unwanted children, who hear and see and feel what others will not, watch a stranger walk in wearing impossible colours. He offers to cure the town's rot. The town has never met a debt it could not rename.
We Fix What We Can
A story about three teenagers in a northern English town, each quietly trying to make things a little better than they found them. Told by a voice that knows them all, it is about small acts, steady hands, and what it means to stay
The Snibbet
Some people move through the world making noise. Thirteen-year-old Leo has learnt to be still. But when an old illustrated book vanishes from the bookshelf, Leo discovers something extraordinary living in the walls of the Victorian house: the Snibbit, a small magical creature that collects beautiful things and understands that silence can be full of meaning. Through carefully preserved fragments from the past, the Snibbit teaches Leo how to navigate a world that isn't built for quiet people.
The Performance
After a student dies, his classmates build a memorial wall, organise a tribute gig, and perform their grief for an audience. But as the event approaches, some of them begin to ask uncomfortable questions about who they're really doing this for and why no one noticed when it mattered.
The Alabaster Compendium
A meticulous scholar obsessed with achieving perfection through dark magic has left a trail of disappeared victims across Victorian London. As he prepares his final, most powerful ritual, a rational detective follows an impossible pattern of evidence that challenges everything he believes about reality. When their paths collide, logic confronts the supernatural in a desperate race to stop a man who has discovered that reality itself can be reshaped—at a terrible cost. A psychological dark fantasy where obsession, horror, and investigation intertwine in the shadowy streets of a city hiding ancient secrets.
The Boy On The Bridge
A teenager rebuilding after a breakdown walks the estuary bridge each day, a ritual of solitude and recovery. One October afternoon, they encounter Daniel Keppler, a former bully, standing alone at the railings. Their eyes meet. No words pass. The next day, news arrives: Daniel took his life that night.
Haunted by the encounter, the protagonist begins to sketch: the bridge, the water, Daniel's unknowable final moments. Through ritual and imagination, they process what can never be understood: two damaged people crossing paths at the threshold, each carrying something too heavy to name.
A quiet story about survival, silence, and the weight of witnessing.
The Silence Between Us
A post-apocalyptic story about a young Boy and his telepathic dog, Grit,
Checkpoints
Is about Alex, a young man with dyspraxia, whose mother, Marianne, invents a system of symbolic objects—"Checkpoints"—to help him manage his daily transitions and behaviour.
Arrivals and Departures
A poignant short story about Dr. Malcolm Forrester, a recently deceased physics professor, who finds himself in a transitional room between the two titular doors.