Love Stories: Tag – Short Story
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Short Stories
Triptych part 1 of 3
Everyone told me it would be fine. My hometown’s a decent size, and although you often bump into neighbours in the street, into people you knew from sixth form, I didn’t think it likely we’d meet. I didn’t think he’d still be around, figured he might have moved to London like he always said he would. I imagined he’d have stopped shopping in the stores we used to go to. I shouldn’t have assumed everything would change after I left.
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Tail Feathers
At first light of dawn, just as the sky is tinged with pink across the mountain tops and the dew glistens in the first rays, he is up and ready, alert and on the move. Ready to take on every comer in defence of his one – or two or three – true loves.
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Marmite, Diamantés and Fuzzy Carpets
Clare had asked if she wanted them to stay the night; rent a room at the hotel across town. Isabelle had laughed as she unpacked pots and pans, picking up the sandwich toaster in the shape of a cow that friends from home gave as a leaving present, bending over to put it in a kitchen cupboard.
Short Stories
Triptych part 2 of 3
I felt a knot in my stomach as soon as I saw her in the shop, the one I used to feel when my mother called me to the car to go see my grandfather at the nursing home when I was kid. I tried to steer clear, to move Melissa over to the lamp and fittings section. I knew she’d seen us when I saw her hiding behind a designer vase. It was original, would have looked nice on our dining room table, but I couldn’t very well show it to Melissa with Clair hiding behind it.
Short Stories
Triptych part 3 of 3
A year and three months. That’s how long Matt and I have been together. Officially that is, because unofficially we met way before. I’m sure we both fancied each other, but he was damaged goods. Freshly split with Clair, the wonder-woman, the only long term he’d ever had. I was there to pick up the pieces.
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A Dip in the Gene Pool
There comes a time in everyone’s life when they wander why exactly they continue in the great dispiriting round – meet someone, date for a while, break up. What use are men after all? Perhaps, when the great biological foot stands ready to stomp, there is one use you can still put them to . . .
Short Stories
A Dip in the Gene Pool
There comes a time in everyone’s life when they wander why exactly they continue in the great dispiriting round – meet someone, date for a while, break up. What use are men after all? Perhaps, when the great biological foot stands ready to stomp, there is one use you can still put them to . . .
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The Romance of Trees
A romantic fairy-tale about the love between a young prince and princess, turned into trees by an evil witch. Finding ways to whisper messages in the wind and knotting their roots together like lover’s holding hands, the trees romance lasts for thousands of years until a violent storm threatens their special bond.
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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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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.
Erotic Short Stories
Self Portrait
It was hot - and she was bored. She couldn’t face gym, and her coffee tasted insipid. She didn’t want to think about her comatose marriage. She wandered into an art gallery and instead of seeing only the art, she was artfully seduced into seeing her sensuous self....
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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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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.
Erotic Short Stories
Water and Electricity
“Jesus, you’re horny,” her husband said. “We should do building work more often. It must be all the testosterone in the air …”
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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.
Erotic Short Stories
When the Lights Go Out
It was meant to be the whole gang at the movies. But one by one they cancelled – all except Adam, and that suited Rachel just fine. When the lights dimmed, it was going just the way she hoped it would. And then, the lights went out altogether …
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The Raft
Susie threw her glass of wine in his face. In that instant, she hated him and wished she had never met him.
Dave lunged forward, trying to grab her arm. She evaded him, but slipped in the wine swimming about their feet. She teetered, trying to hold her balance, but fell heavily against the deck railing. A swell lifted her and she was overboard.Page 1 of 1 pages
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