obohobo: Stories

Sacking the head of her design department leads to the loss of her own job

After knocking her boss over and rudely ignoring his plight, arrogant Loraine is given a choice, spend a month as an office cleaner or lose her job as an executive.

Elise, a pauper, is bought by a 'do-gooder' woman at Shanty Town and given to her son as a slave to take his mind away from his work and to help him overcome his reluctance to socialise with women in the hope that he will find a suitable girl to marry. Does she succeed?

Tutoring a teenage, disabled girl, in entomology, leads to romance and a stormy relationship with her parents.

After losing her temper, Alice is sentenced to a whipping for assault. Her father, the local vicar, disgusted with her behaviour, ensures she has the harshest treatment and a lengthy work rehab programme in a subject she won't like.

After visiting a 19th century schoolroom in a museum, Emma imagines herself in a rather special school during those times.

Janice, shy and introverted, is teamed with the college's star rugby player for an English project. Both their lives are changed when an accident on the rugby pitch leaves him crippled.

Goaded into writing an erotic story for an underground newspaper at university, brings changes in Emily's personal life.

A mature but disfigured student at university takes in three girl students for extra tuition but one is very unwilling to learn.

Insecure supports for a bookcase bring help, and more, from a lodger.