The big yellow taxi pulled up.

When I got in, the driver had puffy eyes; he’d been crying. Something must’ve snapped in his mind. He turned with a crazed expression.

“Where we going to then, sweetheart?” he asked in a murderous tone, and sped off before I could get out.

Angela L. Garratt is the author of Innocent Spirits. She also writes poetry and runs a successful writing group at her local library. Her preferred genre is horror, but she also has a fascination with history and natural history. She is the co-writer of four songs that are now out on a CD called Past and Present by Niven Smith.