There is no better way to spend Halloween than sitting round a camp-fire deep in the woods, drinking home-made hooch and telling scary stories, legends of dark deeds and ghostly ghouls.  It was something that started with his grandparents when George was a child, and while it was then soft-drinks and tame tales, that sense of awe and wonder grew strong in the young boy's mind. The tradition continued through adolescence g...

Many years ago I had a brief affair.  I was then in my early forties, Elaine a bit younger.  We were both married.  While the sex at the time was both intense and very good, we both had lives full of other complications, and neither of us dealt well with the secrecy and sneaking around.  It didn't last. In the years that followed, however, we kept in touch, talking on the phone, meeting for coffee and occasionally going f...

I guess I have always known I'm attracted to men.  At school, my friend Ronnie used to try to put his hand down my trousers on the school bus.  At the time I fought him off, but as I've aged I think back and wonder why.  As was usual for people in the sixties and seventies I grew into heterosexual relationships, got married and had children.  None of which I regret; I love my family dearly but I have often wondered how it...

It had to be the most bizarre idea for starting a family in the history of procreation.  If someone had told me, even a year ago, that my husband and I would do this, I would have said they were stark, raving mad.  But some circumstances change people, change the way they think; they changed my husband, and they certainly changed me.  Two years ago, Paul and I were a happy-go-lucky, ordinary, married couple.  We both had...