One Hot Summer

"The joys of youth in the early seventies."

This story continues from my last story about Penny. It is a bit of a travelogue, touching on the Sex, Drugs, and Rock n Roll era of the early seventies. But although this was a summer of sexual excess, I’d...

Penny. Chap.2.

"Penny shares her best friend."

I arrived back in England in the last week of August. My mates had given up our Brooklands Close flat, and two of them (Brian and Phil) said I could sleep on the settee in the lounge of their new...

Penny

"A young woman’s awakening."

In writing one of my recent stories, ‘The Red Dress’. I pieced together timelines and places from the sixty-odd postcards my mother had kept of my travels around Europe. Also, having been a keen photographer all my life, I am...

Mind-Blowing Brunch At The Bistro

"Two women misbehaving when they thought they were unobserved."

It was July 1974, and I was hitchhiking in France—from Calais to Venice, specifically. I spent the first night in a half-finished house in Moulins and was woken by the workers arriving at 7:30. They laughed and waved goodbye as...