Before you start...this is quite a long story, but please have patience. Thanks. Cindy’s ice blue eyes stare deep into mine, a rock solid, unflinching gaze. I get the impression she is not going to deliver good news. “Rob, I won’t hold back, you’re a dear...
Never in a million years did I think that it would come to this. I had a crazy notion that we would be together for the rest of our days. Our relationship had always seemed rock solid, maybe a little on the conservative side, but perfectly happy. One ordi...
The invite says 8 pm sharp. Thanks to the slowest taxi in the world I am twenty minutes late already. The driver and his overbearing opinions are beginning to grate on me as we finally arrive outside the Cedar Rooms. He is angling for a tip, but he doesn’...
I really should be going. I’m already twenty minutes late back from my lunch break, but the boss is away. I can handle anything his gormless assistant, Doug might throw at me.I’m in the sandwich shop adjacent to our office block, I rarely ever used this p...
I’m driving you down to the Meadowlands. The brooding, wild and desolate Meadowlands, you’ll like it there I’m sure. It’s so quiet and peaceful, a world away from your hectic city lifestyle. I used to bring your Sister here years ago, ten years ago to be...
The sun has me caught in it’s shimmering haze on this lazy day in July. It’s too hot to even consider doing anything that involves movement of any kind. The blinding rays are bouncing off the hotel’s oval swimming pool and hitting my eyes like a laser. My...
Ten years since I set foot in this sleepy little outpost, nothing seems to have changed at all. It’s like a place stuck in a void, unable to break free. It’s a quintessentially English village - stuffy, well to do folk who look down on you if you don’t sp...
“The trouble with you men is you want it all ways. You want someone to cook and clean for you, a slave basically. You expect the house to be spick and span but never lift a finger to help. Then at night when you stagger in from the pub drunk, you expect u...
I knew going for a quiet drink with Terry would be anything but ‘quiet’ it just never works out that way. I didn’t really want to go out, I seem to stay in a lot more these days. Terry was not taking no for an answer tonight.“Come on, Jez, we ain’t met up...
It’s unbearably hot as the mid afternoon sun beats down onto the garden. We certainly made a bad decision to re-lay the lawn on this particular Sunday. The sweat is pouring out of me as I lay down another roll of grass. Thankfully, the job is nearly over....
The doorbell rings, snapping me out of a daydream. I rise from my armchair and make my way to the front door. Through the frosted glass I can make out the frame of a young woman.I open up and am immediately struck by the vision of loveliness standing on m...
The alarm pings, 8 am. I press snooze and turn over, reaching for my wife, I try to cuddle an empty space.Coming to my senses slowly I recall that she’s got an early start at work, promising not to wake me on my day off. The sun is so bright that it penet...
I try to avoid her but it’s impossible, she calls out my name across the crowded shopping mall.“Paul, hey Paul, I thought it was you, are you trying to avoid me or something?”I would have loved to be honest and say yes, but I’m too much of a soft touch to...
I swipe the card and push open the hotel room door, the lights are dimmed and the curtains closed, even though it’s only 4pm. “Happy Birthday, Tim, grab yourself a glass of Champagne and come see if you like the present I’ve got you.” I turn towards the b...
Why can’t all working days be like this?I trudged into the office this morning feeling weary, if not a little hungover. It had been a late night which had found it’s way into early morning. Three coffees later I was feeling almost human again. At about el...
