We were laying contentedly in each others arms, emotionally and sexually exhausted, when she dropped her unwelcome bombshell. “I don’t know how to say this Rob, I’ve being trying to for a while, but we are going to have to stop all this- and I mean a clean break from today.”“What…why?” I exclaimed, automatically hugging her beautiful warm body even closer to mine. My mind was racing, wondering what had prompted this devas...

My first sighting of her was a rear view, as she bent over, struggling to release a baby cot-seat from its wheeled buggy, in the middle of platform two at Kings Cross station. As I approached I noticed two men and a woman bypass her without care, as they rushed for seats on the London to Aberdeen morning express. I heard her curse loudly, as she shook her hand in a motion that suggested that she had trapped a finger.“Can...

My brother Vince was two years younger than me, and was in a long-term relationship with his girlfriend, which was new ground for him. In virtually every respect we were as different to each other as ‘chalk is to cheese’. At that time, about fifteen years ago, I was in my late twenties, a successful photographer with my own business in the weddings, portraiture, and catalogues field. I was a stable kind of guy with my own...