John Jacob "Jake" Nicholls and Gillian "Gill" Louisa Moorhouse have both been damaged in the past. Each has worked together and admired each other for years, although they seem miles apart in their careers. Now a broken marriage and broken family have brought them into alignment. Together they climb a steep hill, but will they fall and will they be hurt? A gentle romance set against a backdrop of high hills, high finance and a low character, a story full of humour, drama and love.
'Jen's Dream Santa' sequel. Junior and Jen are obligated to spend the whole of December in the North Pole, Jen learning the Mother Christmas role with on-the-job training. Jen doesn't want to miss the family festive holiday, so she organises a pre-Christmas celebration with all her family and friends at a November Christmas bash, a resounding success. Jen starts her Christmas nightmare training with M-in-Law, which we read about it through a journal provided by the Chief Elf Librarian.
Jennifer dreams of Santa at Christmas, as if catching St Nick placing presents at the end of her bed, or sometimes she just dreams that he visits. With an assuring voice he calms her and she goes back to sleep. She once told her parents about her dream but they told her to forget it. Now almost 30, she kicked out her boyfriend of 8 years for cheating, but to fend off her grandchild-wanting mother made up a fake boyfriend. Now she will have to confess. And suddenly Santa comes early....
A husband, Bob, discovers his wife, mother of their 3 teenage children, in bed with a family friend, being sent home after a work injury during the night shift. A keen jogger, after flooring his "friend" Bob goes on his usual long early morning run, much further than normal, and ends up in hospital. When he wakes up, no-one knows who he is (no ID or wallet in his running shorts) but remembers himself as Tommy, in his early 20s whose last memory is shopping for milk. Who is he?
Daniel seems to have gotten over the death of his wife to cancer after two years and started to pick up the threads of his political life again, something that once dominated his life to the full. Aunt Marina has just lost her job as a shop assistant, finding that after a lifetime dominated by sibling and sibling offspring care, that she is free to determine her own life, especially when she discovers the person who ruined her is living the good life that she deserved.
Moses sees an illusionist doing card tricking in a shopping centre, reminding him of how he started 70 years ago. He decides to show him what a real magician can conjure up.
It's that time of year when little stories of horror abound. This one a bedtime story that is far too short and sweet for the Hallowe'en Contest, but hopefully this little piece of nonsense could be a little appetiser to complement the main dish of Goulish, Cold Cuts and Fangcakes. Are you lying down on plumped pillows and your comforter pulled up to your chin? Then I'll begin...
A tyro lawyer resolves to make every effort to improve his status as his New Years Resolutions. And on New Years Eve, while the rest of the firm parties, he gets a chance to see new Uptown client, a top Federal Government scientist in his holding cell. Trouble is, it all comes down to his client's resolutions. A non-erotic sci-fi story.
Jack and Frieda have known each other for two or three months and Jack decides to invite Frieda to spend a night in Brighton and she accepts. Unfortunately, it is 1952 and Frieda's husband is one of the most dangerous bosses of an East End London gang, involved in prostitution, white slavery, bookmakers and extortion. Games are being played for high stakes, do they really know what they are letting themselves in for?
