The Closed Cabinet
Clive starts work in a bookshop, expecting to get away with his usual till-skimming. Big mistake.
Clive starts work in a bookshop, expecting to get away with his usual till-skimming. Big mistake.
John inherits The Touch from his grandfather. 'Don't abuse it like I did, kid.'
Jonathan is babysitting little livewire Billy Silverton, just so he can take Rachel to the homecoming dance. He didn't bank on being the Tooth Fairy.
It's a quiet Sunday morning in a backwater bar in Arizona. Then a stranger walks in…
Anna's husband gives her the devil of a surprise on their tenth wedding anniversary.
Thousands of miles, stuck in an old car with a human motormouth… Celeste finds an escape.
At a pub quiz with their neighbours one minute, then suddenly wandering hand in hand in summer countryside. Fiona and Donald are having an odd day.
Janet reads an extract of her story, 'Ursa Mater' to her academic feminist writing group, who can't get their heads around the simplicity of the tale.
Three hikers accept hospitality from a strange man who lives with his mother in the middle of nowhere.
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