Scientists used to do an experiment whereby a dog’s repeated reward for performing a task was unaccountably replaced by punishment. The dog, knowing it would be penalized for doing well or doing badly, would become...

From space this Earth is incandescent with abominations – the gods write their signature in our entrails

Stab me if you can enjoy it – but not if it feels like a duty. Stab me vertically if I’m lying down and horizontally if I’m running

Since childhood I’d been suspected of imagination

Used a replica gun to steal a replica sportscar and experienced a replica of remorse

a story is ready when it falls from your face

Hang up the phone on a vampire, the definition of carefree.

What happens when the hitcher and the driver are equally murderous?

He had long been curious at leaders intermittent calls for a return to past values and had tested the notion by trying to build a house from the sky downwards

We have truth in order not to die of art.

I crept in to find my father with pennies on his eyes – and looking closer I saw they were made of foil-covered chocolate. Of course I stole and ate them. Magical guilt? Tell me...

A key and a strangler – this is all a simple tale requires.