Daisy Penfolde turned from the swings and walked away, trying to ignore her daughter’s squeals of delight as she ran to Caroline Rook’s waiting arms…
She felt numb, but all things considered, that was at least something. With her legs on automatic, she moved through quiet streets without even the tears to mourn the loss of [...]

Pinpricks of distant light fall upon the earth and the moon. This light is millions, billions of years old.
There comes a sudden flash of orange and green; and something falls through from another reality: A ship.
It is listing, dying slowly; damaged perhaps beyond repair. If there is anyone still on-board, they’re either unconscious or dead. [...]

‘Time is linear to us,’ siad Professor Tinwhistle. ‘It’s simple cause-to-effect. And that’s easy for us to deal with. But Time isn’t. Time is like space, it exists. You can travel up and down, backwards and forwards…’
The professor giggled slightly, then became very calm.
‘You must think me mad.’
‘After what you’ve been through,’ said Major Smith, [...]

(belief)
[Translation begins]
Belief… so strange.
Is religion belief? Or belief religion?
I don’t understand.
They used their belief as a weapon, used it as a justification to kill, to hurt… They believed they were better, had the right… to…
I didn’t know how to stop them. There was… something holding me back; fear I think and a feeling of isolation.
I [...]

He woke with a killer headache and instinctively felt between his legs.
Opening his eyes, Donnie Penfolde, now sure of who he was, frowned at the wall before him.
There was movement overhead and he rolled onto his back as a couple of kids walked over the top.
Right.
A coffee shop, its name written in some kind of [...]

(beginning)
Beyond the canopy of the trees, the sky was a dark, dark blue, clouds as floating silhouettes.
Birds twittered and flocked in the trees, and below them, the dark trunks were a strangely comforting sight to the person standing among them.
They stared at the sky and the stars beyond the atmosphere, and spoke.
‘Where are you?’

Daisy stood among the crowd, Elvis nearby but not obviously, and watched the flames rise into the sky.
‘It’s started,’ she whispered.
The shopfront was collapsing, burned timbers cracking and cumbling under the strain. The sign collapsed to the ground and split in two:
The Sisterhood
Behind her was The BSD cafe-come-clubhouse. Men stood at the windows, some were [...]

She woke with a killer headache and tried to feel between her legs, but found her arms wouldn’t move.
Looking up, she saw a woman beside her, holding her up and dragging her along a passageway. Her other arm was similarly held.
They stopped beside a door, which they opened, and tossed her onto the large orange-covered [...]

A light was turned on with a crack of plastic-against-plastic. The energy-saving globe burst into flourescent life, flickered once and then was steady.

‘Here you are sir,’ said the white helmeted guard, leading an elderly man into the stark, bare room.
‘Um…’ began the man unsurely. ‘Thankyou.’
‘Don’t mention it sir,’ said the guard and walked from the [...]

She woke with a killer headache and instinctively felt between her legs.
Ah.
Donnie opened his eyes and stared into a beautiful sunset, marred only by the roar of engines being taxed to their limits.
‘Was wondering when you were going to wake up,’ yelled Prime above the din. ‘Hang onto something, we’re going down!’
The noise was incredible [...]