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Donna Goes to Coventry
If you had asked me yesterday if I had a happy marriage, I would have said yes with a huge smile. Fuck, if you’d asked me at breakfast today, I’d have said the same. I pinched myself every day when I came home to prove I wasn’t living a dream. I took a quick inventory. Job, one of, fun and rewarding, check. House, one of, big and fully paid off, check. Bank account, one of, pleasantly big and growing steadily, check. Wife, one of, attractive, loyal, reciprocates devotion, check. Kids, two of, boy and girl, 15 and 14 respectively, check. Life just couldn’t get better. Read More …
The Mortcrater Party
Melissa woke up confused on more than one level. Confused because she had no idea where she was and confused because she had no recent memories. She tried opening her eyes but quickly closed them again. The bright lights hurt. That is why it was her nose that solved the first riddle. It gave her the unmistakable smell of ‘hospital’. That solved one problem although it didn’t allay her confusion. Read More …
How High a Price – A Sequel
Sue walked into the room and sat down across the table from Jennifer who slid a cup of coffee across to her. In a voice slightly raised above the hubbub in the room Jen says. Read More …
Frustration
“So, why did you fuck your boss?” Read More …
Means, Motive, Opportunity.
From my seat in the dock I looked around the courtroom as the furore continued. After my shock began to dissipate, I realised with dread that the next 6-8 years of my life were going to be hell. Read More …
Double Betrayal
My Dearest David
There is no easy way of telling you this but I have left you. Read More …
With a Bang and a Flash
OUR FRIENDS IN blue turned up at the garage I owned in the form of two officers in a patrol car. Read More …
Paranoia
LISA MALLOW SAT at a table in the back corner of the coffee shop gazing lovingly at her boyfriend Frank Morecomb. Read More …
Death Sentence
Join the army. Travel the world. Meet lots of interesting people, then kill them. Read More …
ONSLAUGHT
THAT SUNDAY AFTERNOON I drove home after a typical summer’s day. I slept in that morning, went to church, then golfed with the guys. It has been like that every Sunday for the last year since the second of our kids left home. Our eldest Laura, was now twenty. She moved to a nursing school out of town two years ago. Our baby Josh followed to college last year. Read More …