The clatter of dinner plates turns her head, but I hold my stare. The curving neck, the raven hair, the perfection of her ear's shell.She swivels back, locking eyes."You were saying?""Ah, right. Sorry. The merger papers..." She pulls herself tight against...

One of those blink and you're awake mornings. Hot wind rising, feeling frisky, sheets flung off. Camera rolling.Breakfast done. Curtains open, body naked, time for yoga. Camera rolling.Long warm tub, nice slow play. Camera rolling.Zoom, Zoom, Zoom, blah, blah, blah. Just a...

A Thousand Miles

"If death came knocking…. would you?"

“I didn’t want to worry you.”  The message appears, confirming all my fears.She hasn’t been around for days. I knew something was up.  Her usual playful messages were absent. There was silence.“Me, worried?” I say with poorly disguised cheer. “They don’t know if it’s...

Gemma

"Lucy helped Gemma find feelings she never knew she had."

Gemma was up out of bed at 6.30, as usual, every morning, she got showered and kissed her husband goodbye as she headed off to her shop. She ran her own small art dealing business on the south coast just...