Dark Wishes Designs - A Life in Miniature

  ‘What the heck is that?!’ exclaimed Sue as she removed her coat and hung it neatly on the coat rack in the hall. She was still staring as her husband finally appeared at the top of the stairs. On the console table in the hall was a very dirty skull with a little bronze crown glued to it. The glue had clearly not been applied very carefully as it had dripped and oozed out down the back of the skull. Sue wrinkled her nose in disgust. ‘Hmm?’ said Joe not really registering what she meant straight away, then he realised as he saw her peering at it. ‘Oh, THAT!’ ‘Well??’ She said impatiently, positively glaring at Joe over her driving glasses. He started to walk down the stairs until he was about halfway then he paused and sat on the step. ‘We found it today when we were ripping out the wall in the bar, y’know, in The Peacock pub where they’ve been renovating’ said Joe shrugging his shoulders. ‘Yes’, sighed Sue annoyed, she was well aware that he’d been working at the pub in ...

  Victor and Gerald Summerfield were twins, but you really would not have known. Born just twenty minutes apart and non-identical, Victor the first one to come into the world protesting loudly and then Gerald, so quietly, the midwife had slapped his legs to ensure he took his first breath. That was pretty much how it continued, Victor was the outspoken boy at school who always got into fights, he was the dominant one from day one. The twins mother Connie showed little interest in them as they grew up, preferring the company cigarettes and alcohol and very odd men.   She would complain loudly about how the boys ‘had ruined her figure’ to anyone who listened, even in front of them. No one knew who the boy’s father was, and when they were five, they went to live in the Gloucestershire countryside in a village called Fallow Marsh on The Water. It seemed their mother had finally landed herself a rich guy, Nigel Cameron, who owned a 17 th century 8 bedroom manor house just ...