When my employee, who I had sent on a secret mission about a year before, finally messaged me, I was in shock. I couldn’t believe that they had achieved the mission. I sent them on it thinking it would be impossible and that they would never return. There are a lot of legalities surrounding firing […]

‘How dare you talk to me like that, in front of the children!’ Lynette hissed at me, as we had a moment alone in our hotel room.          ‘Me?!’ I asked, shocked. ‘How about how you were talking to me?!’          ‘Oh, please, because I’m so rude to you, all the time,’ she rolled her […]

‘How did it go, sir?’ Hugo greeted me at the door, the insatiable lap dog that he was. ‘Beyond belief,’ I surmised, throwing my heavy coat over the hook and turning to him with an uncharacteristic smile. ‘This could change everything, Hugo! Everything!’ ‘Excellent, sir,’ Hugo scraped his nose to the ground with a huge […]

There was no way anybody was going to fall for these disguises. Absolutely no way at all. They looked completely preposterous, with their army green jumpsuits, caps and the most obvious fake moustaches Maphira had ever seen. Certain they wouldn’t last five seconds inside the building, Maphira pushed on, Vai beside her. They entered with […]

I cradled my head in my hands as someone turned the music up again, desperately scrambling to get down the packed hallway and out of the front door. Needless to say, my first house party was almost definitely going to be my last. ‘Where are you going?’ my friend Janice yelled directly into my ear, […]