"A seventeen-year-old schoolboy slowly learns that what he inherited can lead to many opportunities."
How did it come to this?I’m sitting between my wide-eyed and frankly startled parents, waiting for my name to be called. My mum keeps saying that I haven’t done anything to be ashamed of and that I have done nothing...
"The search for a phone charger leads to a memory I’ll never forget."
Is there ever a more depressing feeling than when you have lost your phone charger. I say lost, but I knew exactly where it was, I could picture it, sitting proudly in the wall socket of the table by the...
"Claire finally meets Michael"
The taxi glided smoothly through the centre of town as I stared out into the dusk of the evening. The yellow streetlights blinked into life as in silence I passed all the familiar buildings that hold such a special place...
"As the arranged meeting with Michael draws near. Claire is haunted by serious doubts."
Chapter Four Claire begins the short walk from the horse-drawn carriage to the church. The frozen breath of the two black stallions hangs thickly in the air as the falling snow catches on the wind and swirls around her. She wears...
"As Claire’s journey continues. The memories flood back."
Chapter ThreeThe house was quiet. All the stress and noise of Monday morning’s pantomime was over. And now I could finally afford myself the luxury of my first hot cup of coffee in the now peacefully empty kitchen.In truth, the...
"Claire finds herself falling deeper into a strange new world"
“What!” they screeched in unison, as they both stared disbelievingly in my direction.“You’re actually going to do it?” Karen ventured, her eyes wide in skepticism and alarm.“That was the idea wasn’t it?” Their stunned expressions made me laugh out loud. I hadn’t actually done...
"A widowed mother slowly realises that she needs something more"
I’m sitting staring at my reflection in the dressing table mirror.Who was I kidding? Forty-three years old, with two children and going on a date for Christ’s sake. I must be mad. The black bra held my 36DD breasts perfectly in place, gravity hadn’t yet completed its work,...
"Nothing was planned. It just happened."
I didn’t see it coming. I know I should have, but I just didn’t.I guess it all started at the Christmas party at my parents’ pub. The Fisherman’s Retreat is the only pub in this small Cornish fishing village. In...
"David is heartbroken as Kate learns of her fate"
The house felt cold and silent. David sat at the kitchen table, staring blankly into his empty coffee cup. He’d spend much of last night and today trying to solve this impossible dilemma. He was being blackmailed by a man...
"Kate's world is turned upside down by a delivery."
David stared out of his study window. It had been raining all morning and he was daydreaming, watching the puddles forming on the gravel driveway outside. A welcome day off gave him the chance to catch up on a pile...