The Car Park

"Rain might stop play, but there is always the car."

Glass mottled by fat raindrops obscured them from discovery in the underlit car park. Only the diffused moonlight threw milky shadows against their bodies. It felt exciting and tawdry; the danger of being discovered outweighed by the need for gratification.His...

I Should Know Better

"A sixty-five-year-old woman is infatuated with her grandson’s sixteen-year-old friend."

I should have been ashamed of myself.  At sixteen, Jon was one-quarter my age. And he’s Jon – not ‘Jonathan’ like a grandmother might call him, or ‘Jonny’ like a mother, but ‘Jon’ like an adult. God knows he was...

The World Championship

"A young WW2 veteran and athlete has everything going for him, but Fate is just around the corner."

A man who’s been to war must learn to make peace with the mirror.A 6'1" tall man stood in front of an oak-framed mirror and a too-low wash basin with a brass cross-handle faucet. The young man was using a...

Fluid Dynamics

"A successful mature woman in a male world fills a gap in her life."

I needed a large, stiff one. After all these years I still suffered nerves before a speech.“Could I have a glass of gin?” I asked, spurning my host’s offer of tea or coffee in the green room before we went...