"First time campers become more than long-term friends."
Summer vacation and my parents decided to go camping - not just that, but they decided to go camping with my uncle and his family as well. My dad’s brother lives in Italy, but they were coming over to...
"A chance meeting ends in discovery."
Another work trip, another hotel, another three hundred and fifty miles from home, it’s a small world; you’ll see what I mean later. There I was back at the hotel where I stayed at for a week while I sorted...
"Before he knows it, a boy becomes a man."
I did the morning and evening paper round every day before and after school. I had to earn money to pay for my hobbies. I got an allowance from mum and dad but was not enough, so hence the paper...
"One office party you wish you were at to get over your Ex."
You love them or hate them, office parties; I could not stand them, particularly this one given by my ex, and it was one of those awkward ones. It was my ex-girlfriends fortieth birthday party, and because she was...
"What’s good for a mother is also good for her daughter"
I ran home straight after school as usual; it was Tuesday and again for some reason Kevin was at our house and as usual he was just leaving as I got home. He gave me a peck on the cheek...
"A warm hand leads to bigger things"
An empty room, empty of a person, I had just finished cleaning up and tidying a room for a single person in a care home. The room consisted of a single bed in a corner, a wash room with a...
"A sister’s love turns sour for a cheating lover."
Just got off a plane and straight into a hotel limousine, I have come to hate hotels; I wanted a place of my own. I’m well off, in the world of finance. I’ve worked hard and set up my own...
"Curiosity flourishes in the darkest of places"
It was a Wednesday, Wednesday evening; Wednesday late evening. I was helping a friend out by putting up some shelves in a basement of a church hall. Not my usual job but just something I turn my hand to every...
"A great gift for a humble teacher."
You know it’s going to be one of those days when you have to hurry and rush around straight from the word go in the morning. I’m Jet, I’m forty five, five foot six inches tall, black hair (what’s left...