Strange Functions

  “For someone who can’t see, you came out of your house pretty sharpish,” said Melrose.   Rufus, wearing something like an armoured bath-ro...

  He rested, though it was a watchful, nervous rest, constantly turning this way and that to see if anymore lizardkin were somehow sneaking ...

  Melrose scanned the horizons but there was nothing but plain, white sand to be seen in any direction.   He walked around the tower to be s...

  Melrose blinked until his vision improved; now there was still a large black spot in the centre of his vision but his peripheral vision wa...

  Melrose stood outside Rufus’s house.   Behind him the door slammed shut with enough force to rattle the glass in the windows next to it.  ...

  The book had no pictures but nearly a hundred pages of hand-written scrawl.   In the candlelight, which made shadows cavort across the wal...