Arborglyph; Or, a Nursery Rhyme
From beneath the paupers bridge he looked upwards, outwards, away, to the hill up on high, across cobbled stone and busy street, up to the Hangman's Tree…
Missing
The details of the case came flooding back into Nick’s mind. A boy named Isaac, two years younger than him. No history of depression, no suicide note, no money to his name. Six months of fundraising and river-dredging and police appealing for any information at all. No body, no ideas, just four siblings and two parents, horrified and distraught.
The Wrong Cut
When Jane first mentioned the idea of divorce, Pete was too busy looking down at his trousers to really hear or understand her. He was frowning, so Jane took his expression for that of a man who knew what was happening to him.