"Nat has fun with two handsome lads."
When I was twenty, I worked in a pub in the next town for extra money. Just Friday and Saturday nights. I started as a glass collector, but when I turned eighteen, I began to serve at the bar. It...
"Heather wants to stay true, but what can she do?"
We married early; it was what I wanted. A husband, a home, and a family. I wanted everything I hadn’t had as a child - a real home. I’d grown up in foster care. They were kind. No one hurt...
"Only when the summer sun shines does she find fulfilment."
The church was full. She would have approved of the flowers. She had trained the ladies on the church rota well. The vicar droned on about how she had always given back to the village she loved, “Abigail or Lady Abigail -...
"Endings and beginnings for the quartet of friends."
Over the next few months, things got busy at college, and things continued with the boys from the flat upstairs. I continued to see Fraser and Jason once a week. Marc three times. We spent other times together too. Financially...
"Fraser admits his fears"
Friday was Fraser’s turn to visit me. I kept thinking about Marc. I really liked him, and I knew he liked me. It made me sad that he would never think of me as anything other than a friend with...
"Vic's turn with not so Little, Jack."
There was a mix-up with part of my dissertation, and I spent all day in the library sorting out some references to ensure they were correct. When I got home at 5.00 pm, there was a note under my door...
"Vic takes Jason's Virginity"
After that first night with Marc, Wednesday was just a typical day in college. I rushed back to the flat to finish some work before one of the boys turned up at 7:00. I realised I didn’t know who would...
"Vic finds herself in a financial mess."
It was a four-year college course thirty years ago. Of course, now you can do it in three. Falling standards. It was all I’d ever wanted to do - to be a teacher - that’s what I became in the...
"Widowed neighbours, with a big age-gap come together."
They say not to make any big decisions after you’ve been bereaved. It’s stupid advice as we have nothing to do but make decisions: coffin, flowers, and photos for the service. Where to hold the wake afterward? What to do...
"Finally she gets her dream man"
I was eighteen when Mike married my Aunty Jo. I was twenty-one when she left him for another man.Aunty Jo was thirty-two when she married Mike and he was only twenty-six, so we teased her about her toy boy. I...