Category SS Prompt 2: For Hire

What happens when you hire someone to be your friend and it works too well?

Allan always wanted to live the dangerous life...

Two strangers meet while backpacking and a friendship, despite its transcience, blooms.

A suburban woman is faced with a problem from another world and has to turn to an unlikely source for help.

Sometimes the simplest tasks get lost in translation.

At an early age I had learnt that most men were scum or given the chance could be scummy. It taught me a hard lesson but an invaluable one nonetheless.  I learnt how to detect the worst of the lot…...

“Your skills precede you, you know. One would almost call it legendary.” He swirled his glass, the amber liquid climbing higher at the edges. Steadying his hand, the whisky settled among the translucent ice. Ezra had offered his guest libations…...