Babs

"Just a one-off seduction and fling?"

‘Babs!’She looked in her mid-teens, but I knew differently - I had been at the Café on the day she came of age… twenty-one. Given the way she looked, tall and very willowy, I doubt she wore a bra and...

The Tale of the Warrior’s Wife

"A viking raider's wife gets more than she expected when her husband plunders a beautiful slave girl."

Author's note: the Icelandic character þ is called a 'thorn' and is pronounced 'th'. So þrall is pronounced 'thrall'.The warm water pours from my ladle and sluices over his rippling muscles, carrying away with it the blood and grime and...

It was like driving through a postcard. The road was dark and both sides were lined with big trees, heavy with fallen slow. Nova was finally allowing herself to be excited about getting away from the city for a weekend....

The warning bell breaks the silence, and my concentration. The soft, supposedly unobtrusive note chills my overheated body to the bone. Only ten seconds left.I’m okay. There’s plenty of time. I just have to block everything out and focus.I can’t...

Two city girls take the train home

"Tessa describes our journey home"

Rushing through the station and onto the platform, I'm holding Evelyn's hand as we make a dash through the crowd to catch the train before it leaves. We are laughing and acting like two school girls, giggling hysterically.We lunge into...