A zipped up the back young woman arrives in Paris late at night only to be confronted with her worst nightmare …
“… I LAID it on thick with as much Teuchter bullshit as I could possibly muster. The Loch Ness Monster, wild haggis as an endangered species, haunted castles, anything I could think of to tie up his thought processes … If I could keep going, he might get bored and leave. I knew that he knew that I was talking out of my backside but I was having a great time, drunk on the idea that I was turning the tables on a would-be serial killer …”
Extract from ‘Tailed’ from Close Call: Short and Bittersweet by M K MacInnes. More info here.
M K MacInnes, writer 