Tag: fear
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Nowhere Lane – Chapter Thirty-Three Dark Water Rising
Of the trio locked together at the foot of Nowhere Lane, perhaps Jackson Hallcroft was most equal to their situation. Neither he nor Jaqueline, his son’s new wife, could pass any judgement on their eel-like captive, who they had pinned beneath them, and against whose struggles Jacqueline’s foot, pressed precisely upon his most sensitive […]
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Nowhere Lane – Chapter Eighteen. Through a Glass Darkly
Jacinta Driscombe tapped a rhythm on the cover of a ‘Country Life’ that had settled on a corner of her Queen Anne table, turned a page or two with indolent, scarlet-tipped fingers. They were pages she had read not once, but a dozen times. Sighing, she flicked them closed, stepped elegantly to a cocktail cabinet […]
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Nowhere Lane – Chapter Sixteen. Muffled Drums
Council offices of Karen Eversley’s generation were not known for their extravagance, and Frank Purton’s little suite was no exception: a drab treatment of brown paint and Buckingham cream walls from the County Hall’s barn-like foyer, all the way up to the second storey and a plain door with a base metal label – ‘F.R. […]
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