The bread and butter of a writer's craft is words, but not just words. It's the use of those words to tantalise a reader's senses, to have them experience the story, and this month, we made that the focus. Or more correctly, we asked for characters with a sense they needed to keep hidden from the world.

Why hidden though? Because it makes experiencing the world around one so much more difficult. Taking in information, information you cannot react to, is incredibly difficult. Especially when it's something you shouldn't have, and you learn things no one is supposed to know.

So that leaves us with one question: What secrets are your senses telling you?

Nothing Changes This Terrible Nonsense - Knowing how it will end isn't the gift one expects
The Spirit - Memories aren't the only things haunting Grizz
Victim's Whisper - One detective goes above and beyond to give the dead a voice
If Only - If only the imaginary didn't become reality
Out of Sync - Forewarned is forearmed, but only when understood
3:33 AM - A simple find carries a terrible price
No ITOME - Emotion cannot be chained, no matter how much we try