The Artful Dodger returns to the stinking alleys of London in this prologue to the serial novel Scallywags of London. Dodger is older, wiser, and yet unable to escape his destiny. He's about to set...

A girl draws a picture of her dad every year on his birthday.

A hooded, manacled man attempts to explain his actions to an unseen audience.

A couple discuss a friend's attitude to women.

A woman's empathy for a damaged man.

A woman describes her anguish to the man who ghosted her.

A man and his dying lover spend their last moments together.