"“Extra – Extra, read all about it. Chancellor found dead in Belgravia!”"
All Fool’s Day. 1890It was a memorably raw winter’s night. The sun had slid below London’s dirty river and the only light I could see beyond my basement window was the diluted glow of the constable’s brazier. It warmed him...
"It won't be long now, until she is the one in charge."
She stands, exposed to the cool air in the private compartment – a soft sexy giggle falls from her mouth as she watches him slowly move that familiar slim hand along the length of his hard penis. Her mother would...
"No thoughts of money. - or kids - or making beds - or cooking meals - just a perfect submergence into pleasure."
"The only way you'll get two thousand dollars is if you offer them something special,"“And what do you suggest, Rob? I've run out of ideas. I need that money now; otherwise, I'll lose my deposit; I can't live with you...
"Detective Mike Mace, like Johnny Nash, has more questions than answers."
When I arrived back at my hotel, my diminishing enthusiasm for Jamaican nightlife lifted when I found the bar open. I heard music coming from the space at the back of the lounge; a late-night group of chics were shaping...
"Part One of a two-part story. Detective Mike Mace investigates."
It’s the day after my fortieth birthday and I’m struggling to put one foot in front of the other; after downing two bottles of JD last night, I don’t know why I’m surprised.Not that I’d been out celebrating you understand,...
""When the curtain falls, there is no encore and no applause. Just the stale taste of disappointment.""
OneThe monthly market, in the centre of the rain forest, is a profusion of ochre-coloured skin. Half-naked indigenous females in tiny colourful skirts and overly tight tops laugh in lurid ways; throaty and mischievous.Sweat stained and bosomy, they are thrilled...
""Bless him. He's lost his marbles.""
The silence came upon me in 1952, the day mum asked me to read out the telegram. I’d never seen one before.“Corporal Charles Cooper. Stop - Missing. Stop - Believed killed in action. Stop”Something died inside me when I knew...
"It's a small gap between love and hate."
Kate’s husband Dave had run off with his secretary two years ago. Not that Kate was really bothered by his betrayal. In her eyes, he was a worthless piece of shit and even that was complementing him. They had met...
"First time cyber love for me and my gardening friend."
You sparkle in the morning profusion, like gold caught in a ray of the sun. The light from you shimmers and coaxes. You've blossomed as seduction begun. You tease me with award winning colour, I'm trapped by the look in your eye.You pull back the thorns that...
"It's a hot sunny day, time to top up my tan."
The bright sunlight streams through the window and onto my face. Forcing its way through my closed eyes and burning into my brain. 'Ouch! Go away, it's too early.' I turn away from the painful glare, and remind myself to...