Harry Harris was a simple man, a loner comfortable in his habits, happy to observe with interest the world around him with minimal social contact, that is until a woman with a twinkly top caught his interest in his local tea shop. A gentle romance story that almost wasn't a romance, of ships that pass in the night, over a brew and a toasted tea-cake.
A half-drowned stranger suffering from exposure and speaking a foreign tongue is brought to shore in an isolated fishing city at the height of the Cold War and mistaken for a Russian spy. Meanwhile, his girl mourns for him.
Dr Cameron has been reduced to supplying locum cover after a messy divorce, where his bride traded up her hospital doctor for a successful businessman who managed to successively accuse the good doctor of marital abuse, hence his present unfortunate temporary employment status. Then, before his situation has a chance to improve, it suddenly gets a whole lot worse.... / (Reviews)
When my ex-co-pilot disappeared without explanation on a planet on the outer rim of the Galaxy, I felt obligated to visit my old home planet to find out why. Warning, this story contains one of the worst puns in the known universe.
The youngest labourer in the construction crew, Wayne, has organised a craic for his mates, Gaffer, Donkey and Bodge, a trip from rural West Ireland to the last day of the Cheltenham Festival. They are all doing a "Super Heinz", a way of betting on every combination of 7 races at a meeting, including trebles and accumulators. A great craic is on the cards, but does Wayne have something else in mind? A gentle, humorous road trip with added romance, nothing serious, just the craic.
Penny and I witness a woman, who has all the appearance of being an upstanding citizen, wheel a trolley past the tills without paying, loaded up with booze.
An old English saying dating from the 1720s, "it never rains, it pours", means if you suffer one misfortune you're often beset by a series of disasters. This saying was adapted in a 1914 US advertise for a company selling salt so well packaged that the salt would never get wet and clog, hence the slogan "When it rains, it pours". Everybody gets those times when everything goes wrong, only I've notched it up to "When it Snows". Lots of profanity and healthy sex between wrinklies.
A misunderstanding leads to estrangement, a wedding leads to reconciliation. This story was written 5 years ago as a challenge to take the opening and closing words of a chapter in a classic book and fill in with a unique story. At a request from a reader I am reposting it here. I suppose it could be termed an unusual romance.
In a mid-1930s London suburb, as storm clouds rise over the growing militaristic resurgence in Germany, a window cleaner shows his young son the ropes of his business and reminisces in thoughts and conversations about the Great War.
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A story in the Legends of Ireland Universe
The Mountain of Slievenamon in County Tipperary is known as the 'Mountain of the women', and viewed from a distance looks like a shapely woman lying in repose. The mountain features much in Irish legends with many burial cairns and around 4 portals purported to lead to and from the Otherworld. This gentle, lightly humorous contemporary romance includes fantasy elements of Irish history, legend, and modern life. / (Reviews)
