Rangerstag

27 Jan 2024

The Pass Out - Prequel Part One

How it all started.

It was January 2007, I was twenty-eight, my then-fiancée Tara was twenty-six. We had been together for over eight years and lived together for five. I had proposed to her at the top of the Eiffel Tower during a surprise trip to Paris, just before Christma...

Rangerstag

16 Dec 2023

The Pass Out

I try to work out a way to let the 'genie out of the bottle'.

I awoke with a start, my head slightly foggy from the fact I’d been sound asleep for three hours or so. I checked the other side of the bed but it was empty. My wife, Tara, wasn’t back yet. Blinking, I looked at the clock on the bedside table. It read 3.1...