The following documents were discovered amongst the personal possessions of one Sophia Barton, a sergeant in the Royal Air Force Police Special Investigation Branch. Sergeant Barton was found dead in her Surrey home on March the 14th 2016. The official cause of death was listed as carbon monoxide poisoning. The first document is a typed […]
Evergreen
The following is a selection of emails and transcripts of the video and audio files that were attached to them. In the interests of privacy, I have hidden the addresses. You’ll notice that this is only one side of the conversation between Dr Gotobed and a gentleman by the name of Toby Cooper. I’m afraid […]
The Rose Room
This entry originally appeared in Oscurità: A Dark Anthology. The following document was discovered, frayed and dog-eared, in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet in the basement of Hackney Borough Council during a routine audit. Two sets of faded blueprints were attached to it, along with a stack of Polaroid photographs. Sadly, these photographs […]
Mutual Dreaming Part 3 – Grey Street
Dream Journal – Dr Tyrone Sweet ENTRY 211 DATE: 05/01/90 I am in a deserted city where everything is grey. Tall and empty buildings tower over me stretching out as far as the eye can see. I have been here for minutes or for days. I am not sure which. I am grey too. Trash […]
Mutual Dreaming Part 2 – ‘Can You Read The Stars?
Dream Journal – Eric Neubaum ENTRY 71 DATE: 01/11/88 I am in the forest that the large and the wild trees call home. Their branches reach up to caress the underbellies of enormous white clouds, fluffy like the storybooks. Rusted train tracks lead away into a clearing and in the clearing there is a wooden […]
Mutual Dreaming Part 1 – A Dream of Happiness
DREAM JOURNAL – Catherine Nakamura ENTRY 49 DATE: 11/08/88 I am on a small sphere that hangs in the velvet darkness of space, the stars around a sprinkling of pinpricks. But I am small too. I don’t know the names of the worlds that I visit in my dreams. I’ve never known. But I do […]
‘The Tall Tales We Tell One Another’
Roger Thomas is quite a conundrum. Whilst he dresses and speaks like a jovial college professor, he has actually worn many hats over the course of his 58 years on this Earth. Having left school at 16, he has variously been a Second Officer in the Merchant Navy, driven an ambulance, hosted his own radio […]
