What is Yours …

"Cheryl learns more of Drew's history and demands he move."

My email to Cheryl was simple: “Meet me for lunch?” Hers read: “Lunch, or …?” I replied: “Lunch and a walk in our park.” She responded: “Lunch, walk, and then …?” I couldn’t deny she tickled me. “And then I...

Bacall 1

"I meet a celebrity lookalike"

I had fancied her for a lifetime. When I was a girl my dad always rattled on about Lauren Bacall, the actress who was married to Humphrey Bogart. I am nearly an expert on her since he spent so much...

THE LIBRARY SESSIONS, From Thirty-One Days

"A young man visits the library to confirm the town rumor."

The Library Session, from THIRTY-ONE DAYS The librarian returned to the reading lounge. The librarian was Cindy Waterford, also my next door neighbor. I was about to test the town rumor mill. Did she or didn’t she? Cindy carried a...

Catastrophe

"A dark, wet night and a seemingly deserted farmhouse..."

Autumn. Wet, windy and dirty. At least, that is how I see it. Leaves falling from the trees clutter up the drains and footpaths and look so untidy. It was a horrible, wet Autumn night that I was driving home...

The World Turned Upside Down

"I went to a pub dressed in leather and seduced a musician."

Halloween was my favourite night of the year, all of a sudden. I’d hated it as a kid. I never went trick or treating, I'd almost drowned bobbing for apples, and my parents never bought sweets or costumes.Then, there I was in...