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Short Stories
Give and Go
When an ex-footballer and ex-sports journalist returns to London after twenty years in Australia, he finds himself confronted with a reminder of his broken marriage and the events that propelled him to the other side of the earth.
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Africa
Julie was an unsuitable girlfriend for Mikey. Unfortunately, even since their split, he can’t get her out of his head.
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Praying Hands
This is the happiest day in Gigi’s life. She has met the man of her dreams and they couldn’t be closer or more passionate. So, why is she constantly plagued by these strange premonitions …
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Hot Summer
And then there was the summer that I gave myself to pleasure.
I hardly knew Rose, but I saw her across the room at one of the last parties I went to in the city. On the spur of the moment, I asked her to come and stay, after she graduated, in the cottage I had rented for the summer. She arrived for just the weekend, but we became lovers, and she stayed. That was the start of it.
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Physical
In later life, Seddon and Fitch rekindle the friendship that first started at University, when both dated the beautiful Cath. Since then, Fitch, who married her, has become a geography teacher. Seddon has been married twice, been the managing director of an advertising agency and an adviser to a politician before becoming a journalist. Now, Fitch senses that his wife is getting restless in their relationship.
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No Greater Love
For as long as Sarah can remember, the photograph of a young soldier graced the dresser in Aunt Jane’s home. As she grows up and falls in love, she remains intrigued by Aunt Jane, and the story of the love that was too great to die.
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A Beautiful Parenthesis
A Beautiful Parenthesis recounts the story of two lovers’ fleeting night of reckless passion in the world’s most romantic city, Paris. It begins with a happenstance glance over a glass of wine and ends in the early morning mist: two individuals whose lives remain fundamentally unchanged yet are transformed by this moment spent together.
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Wild Women
Imagine lactating till you’re fifty, and staying pregnant for two years. Or, at the other end of the scale, think about having a dodgy one-night stand and, just two weeks later, you’re a proud mother. Think it’s hard being a woman?
Spare a thought for the poor lioness. I defy any woman to go out, catch a zebra, come home and have sex fifty times, while still finding time to play with the kids, bath, and get a good night’s sleep.
Just be glad you’re a human …
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Plastic Love
Patricia is a shop window dummy with attitude. A career-minded, no-nonsense mannequin, who is seriously annoyed when she’s donated from a high street store to a run down charity shop. Unable to take the shame, Patricia considers suicide until a new male mannequin called Ken arrives and Patricia realises theirs more to life than brand names and trendy bras.
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The Awakening
While on holiday in Tenerife without her husband, Jean acquires much more than a suntan. She meets José, an artist who lives on the island and suddenly a whole new life is opened up to her. Then he asks her to stay, and she realises that it’s the most important decision of her life.
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