Theknife Histoires

Sophie moves in Asheville to make a new start. Sadly, her dad is dead so she lives with her mom. Her new house is big, homey, it has a small garden in the front and wide windows. She goes to her new school and makes some new friends and finds the love of her life. The city she has moved in is friendly, but there's also a dark side that her and her friends will discover. They will have to fight for their lives, maybe lose their loved ones and finish what they've started. They will try to fight till the end. And the most important thing: Never give up. {Not completed}

A thrilling short story of love and romance, horror and death, all leading to one.

The complete novel is available on https://www.amazon.com/Mister-Kreaseys-Demon-Storm-Clouds-ebook/dp/B0052F7KF6/ Having once served as a classroom teacher in a peaceful village school and then experiencing the contrast with a post as a college teacher in an Inner London college where a much thicker skin was needed to adjust to the needs of a much tougher breed of students, I drew on this experience to inform the fiction, Mister Kreasey's Demon; the demon partly the product of a classroom-broken paranoid mind and partly a real, sharp, metal threat to Kreasey's 'well-being', courtesy of his disenchanted students, who didn't want to chew on, still less digest, the metaphysical poets. I can say that my research was done truly, if not painfully, on the job; survival teaching me a lesson but giving me an empathy with those from deprived backgrounds whose anger against society, though difficult to cope with, was still deserving of my spending 2 years exploring the motivations of London's street-toughened students. Tormented by his students there is one exception, Amy, who tries to be Matt's 'passport' to her teacher-bashing classmates . The book cover was designed to suggest that the trust which Kreasey places in Amy and her growing tenderness of feeling for him ( in the foreground on the steps) is threatened by the gathering of those amongst his students ( distorted faces at top of book cover ), Kreasey's 'demon', who want to finish the job of breaking him. Reviews • "As a former London teacher, Raymond Nickford has nailed the teacher's fear of the 'Lord of the Flies' pack mentality perfectly. And what a cliffhanger!" - Marsha Moore - author of The Hating Game. • "Raymond Nickford does anxiety and paranoia so chillingly well." - Jane Alexander - author of "Walker" • "Beautifully observed characters, atmospheric and intriguing." - Barbara Erskine - Sunday Times bestselling author of "The Darkest Hour"