I looked at Judith. “This sounds strange, but I don’t suppose you saw three mad women with a cauldron of boiling tea pass by this way?””No,” she replied. The polite voice of reasonable people scared...

You want to know a secret?””Always.””My real name is Dave.””I see.””This doesn’t seem to amuse you.””I met Jeremy the troll a few nights ago.””Seriously?””Seriously. Also known as the Mighty Raaaarrggh! Although…I can sorta see why...

But it’s not healthy!” replied the Hag. “A mortal and a god sharing the same flesh?””You know, this isn’t why we’re here. I can get abuse pretty much wherever.””Yeah,” sighed the Maid, “but I bet...

Never underestimate the ridiculous things that have been done in the name of religious-semantic obscurity.

The word spread. It began with the techno-literates: young summoners who couldn’t quite get their containment circles right and who had fallen back on Facebook to keep themselves occupied while the sacred incense was cooked...

You know how it is — you get older, you get wiser, you start to ask yourself ‘is it any use being able to summon creatures of the nether deeps when I could be watching...

When last I checked, you were a sorcerer, not a Jedi.””You’ve seen Star Wars?””Seen it and denounced it.””You’ve denounced Star Wars?”She looked me straight in the eye and said, “Hollywood should not glorify witches.””I think...

There was almost a flicker of humanity in the man. The kind of human who pulled wings off flies as a kid, but still human.

It seems to me that the greatest triumph of any human rights movement, be it fighting for racial, religious, sexual or gender equality – is to achieve that moment where eyes are opened so wide...

Men don’t ask other men if they’re getting home OK, they just assume that beneath the frail, weak exterior lurks a muscle-building kung fu master fearless of ever being mugged.

When humans work, they frequently become unaware of their own body, their own senses, are surprised to find that their wrists ache or their backs are sore or their friend has left the building. It’s...

We be light, we be life, we be fire! We sing electric flame, we rumble underground wind, we dance heaven! Come be we and be free!

Whatever happened next, good or bad, it would be wonderful finding out.