Kate had always found Jack’s sonorous snoring annoying. She never really got used to it...it disturbed her sleep, and made her short-tempered in the mornings after. Having lost him, though, it was the silence in the night that woke her, and that she found hardest to deal with.

Alastair Millar, residing in the Czech Republic, is an archaeologist by training, a translator by trade and a writer by choice.