"I return to the cottage with my son and intimacy happens"
"Come on, you haven't been for ages. Just for a few days. It will be fun.""Okay, Mother, for goodness' sake.""You can drive if you want.""Okay, alright already.""What about Louise? Do you want to bring her? We have the Shepherd's Hut...
"Dad puts up cameras and I see something that I shouldn't"
It was a regular Sunday dinner. Brother Leo had driven over with Mum’s car and picked me up. Dad would probably take me home later; he usually did. Leo often had a few ciders with lunch and so couldn’t drive,...
"I meet Leah at the Spa and she comes to visit my cottage during a biblical storm that closes the roads."
I was going to go to the cottage for a few days. Mik was fine at home, and he asked if I minded if his girlfriend stayed, and I simply said, 'Of course not, sweetie, just be, you know, safe.'...
"Mum comes to stay with her free for all hippy ways, we end up getter very close"
Mum was coming to stay for the weekend. We chat on the phone every Monday and, of course, see each other on birthdays and Christmas. Mum, however, feels that the personal touch is essential, and so she is visiting. I...
"Mica gets an offer she can't refuse, and has unexpected and strange sexual experiences at the cottage"
The owner of the Airbnb that I had been using in the dales sent me an email.Hello, Mica. I know that you have stayed at the cottage a few times; we rarely have repeat guests, and you are the only...
"Mica discovers that her neighbours have a dungeon, and they show her how it works"
I had been sitting in Hot Java, the coffee shop in the precinct, when a hand tapped my shoulder. Lost in introspection, I was unaware of my surroundings. The tap on my shoulder snapped me back to reality. I looked...
"An ancient infection causes promiscuity whilst surrounded by Polar Bears"
Havøysund was cold, and I mean bloody cold; even for Norway, it was on the bitter side. There were around three hundred and fifty inhabitants, mostly fishermen; you could even hire a boat for about six hundred krone a day,...
"My brother comes to stay and things get very personal"
The door opened, and an ‘only me’ came down the hall. Leo, my brother, had come to stay over for the new year. He would be here for a few days, and I had made up the spare room for...
"Mica's neighbour helps, and then later her son returns"
I was sitting in the lounge, lost in memories, remembering a week or so ago. Christmas was finished, but not everyone had gone back to work. Paul and Mik were both at work, but Leo, the eighteen-year-old from next door,...
"Mica is surprised at Mik's new approaches. Has he been having lessons elsewhere?"
I didn’t know what Mik had been up to. He had been keeping out of my way for two weeks now, ever since ‘the incident’. The other week he was out for the whole day, and as we were not...