David E. Cooper

A fox-loving recluse has a fatal encounter with a man intent on shooting a fox. The tragi-comic fall-out from this leads to an unexpected ending.

A man becomes increasingly averse to various sounds, with problematic results.

Arthur has befriended the crows who live on a bleak Northunberland moor. When a man shoots two of them, Arthur and the birds exact a terrible revenge.

Colleagues try to retrieve a typescript after its author suffers a stroke - with unexpected results.

After a traffic accident, a retired postal worker finds that he is able to speak only a private language that he had invented for himself.

A man is shot at a village cricket match. The police are sure the wrong man was killed.

An elderly and infirm rich man's wife joins her lover in Paris - with unforeseen results

An author staying in NW Scotland finds inspiration in an old man and his dog, each a victim of war.

A husband and a wife each decide to contract a hitman to kill the other - with unexpected results.

An old and ill Buddhist monk is reunited with the dog that once saved his life.

An elderly man's relationship with his old leather belt takes a strange turn

An ill woman revisits the place she spent happy years with two dogs