Up to You – 3

"Cass continues her relationship with Sue, if you can call it a relationship"

Saturday.It was Rhonda’s mouth on mine. How could I have foreseen that? Her blonde hair fell across me, caressing me as her mouth covered mine and her tongue entered me. It seemed so long, so sinuous. I felt it might...

Maude/Madeleine Part 3

"Maude/Madeleine's story continues from a different perspective"

Jenkins Takes up the Narrative I was born 2 years before the old King died in 1760. I have no idea who my parents were for my first knowledge is of life in a poor house over which the Beadle,...

Maude/Madeleine Part 2

"A destitute girl finds education and pleasure"

You may care to read the first part of this story before embarking on this episode. It will explain the context. The following morning as instructed I found myself in Mistress Pickles’s bedchamber. 'Jenkins reports that you learn well and...

MaudeMadeleine

"An almost destitute girl finds salvation and a new career"

My father, Josiah Clench, was a furniture maker. He died in the influenza epidemic of 1775. My mother and I had lived comfortably if not luxuriously and I had even been given some schooling, enough at least to write this...