This section of short (300 words) fiction is inspired by Lynne Rees's and Sarah Salway's experimental writing Messages Project. More details about this project can be found here. Throughout November 2007, they posted a daily 300 word piece of writing and asked writers to make any link they liked to create a 300 word response. My responses may be found here. I tried to make each one work as a single piece of fiction read on its own and also when read with the original message that inspired it.