Postcards from Kronk - the second collection of daily stories. (2025)

Mango McMurray grinned and passed round his first trophy. He'd been so sly, like a ninja in a blazer, a little diversion and then Wham ! In like flynn. There were six of them, all quiet now, passing the pastel coloured handful round, holding it up to their noses, dramatically breathing in the smell of girl. That no one mentioned they'd all started with the scented erasers was to the groups credit, that they had a secret club dedicated to stealing things from girls was not.

Koji Takeru stands up and adjusts his tie before addressing the House of Representatives, the lower and more powerful house of the National Diet of Japan. This is the moment of truth, his second ever speech but one that will go down in history. " Fellow members, as junior minister for energy I have been entrusted with identifying alternative power sources to see Japan into the next millennium, a quest that has taken me to every corner of our blessed archipelago and I am pleased, no, excited, honoured even to say I have unearthed something that will truly change our plans. What I am about to show you is, I believe, what the westerners call a game changer " The lights go down and a blurry video begins playing on the large screen. " What you are seeing is the inside of a cave system deep within the sea walls of Shikoku, the entrance of which was opened up by the recent earthquake, this cave system is new to mankind but look, on the wall there, a switch - I am about...

There are always stranger things if you look hard enough, stare into the sun and you'll see galaxies forming, look here, now, what do you see? Lightning flash panther stealth mode attack, from the left, two three. She turns and boxes open up one on top of another, a sharks head : a hammerhead the boy responds opening up the satchel of doom. Still smiling from under her fringe she unleashes pure carnage, everything happens at once : flying creatures weave in and out of the smoke, beaks open like mousetraps and waves of pure sonic energy blast open the boys reinforced hyper defences. The super injunction ruptures, his remaining troops exposed, the fold is opening. Measure him up and fetch the boxman the resurgent army of ants chant, smiling up to the girl. This is all happening now, it’s just in tiny tiny world, somewhere inside a jar left forgotten.

Donal Charles hated his new school and was determined to get out of it as soon as he could : Mimi Saunders held his gaze as he looked her up and down with distaste during Year 9 assembly. Although other teachers were watching and quietly discussing the obvious friction between the pair they were lost in the moment, neither realising the pact they were making could only end in trouble.

I struggled to keep a straight face as Stuart let Miranda know exactly how much he'd drank that night. That's a question I doubt she'll ask again in a hurry.

Disillusioned with mainstream politics Jim Wells finds himself on top of the largest bill board in central London. He tries to make out the poster, is a potato faced Prime Minister patting a spaniel ? It's hard to tell from this angle, why did he climb up here in the first place, he can't remember now. If he could just lean a little more that'd be a result.

Connor's coffin was lowered into the grave, old fashioned for a young man he'd planned his funeral in advance, hated the idea of being cremated and wished to be buried next to their sister. Cain kept his composure, if he cried now he wouldn't stop, opposite him their parents, his parents, he couldn't look. A tug on his hand, Jasmine, his brothers youngest nodded towards her sister, she'd left the graveside and was stood on her own in front of the car. " let's go home ".