AMP: Stories

Adorable but hard work - our children, I mean. Often annoying, but sometimes they ride up on a white horse to save the situation.

When Henry converts his string of high class brothels into top of the range retirement homes, he uses his 'girls' as carers, employing others with equally damaged lives. His death at 90 - expected but sudden - leaves his grand nephew ill-prepared to take command. The story is set in Scotland, a great wee country well worth a visit!

Santa's cousin, Donald has political ambitions. This is an interview with the candidate. It is NOT a Christmas story

Fred had been given a hard time by family and at work until the minor incident of his wife kissing another man drove him to assert himself. He didn't guess that SuperFred was waiting to be revealed, although some of his friends knew all along. It seemed as if the world was waiting for the new Fred

Andrew, an English inventor, uses a bachelor party to escape his job and adulterous wife. Maria, formerly a top escort whose career ended when her face was horrifically slashed by a knife. They fan the spark when they meet into warm blaze. This tribute to Oscar Wilde is my attempt to bring some of his ideas into he twenty-first century.

A little essay. There is no explicit sex but be assured that the author has vivid memories of when that happy event was still possible.

When the United States entered the Great War in 1916, it was at a crossroads. Europe urgently needed wheat and anarchists sought to attack the crops to foil the federal desire to help. A bureau (later to become the FBI) was formed to combat criminals with the powers to cross state boundaries. This is the fictional account of a young American who landed on Ellis Island from Scotland in 1902 aged 16.

I sometimes think of questions even Dr Google can't answer, so I write a plausible story to answer them. In this tale, the question is: what did our ancient ancestors do when there weren't enough caves for everyone.

Bill has a plan for the future, disregarding the present until, at 35, he has no job, no wife and no money. An old customer challenges him to restore a market garden, but he finds obstacles in his employer and her six dependents who encompass the Seven Deadly Sins. Can Bill overcome his own sin - the eighth deadly sin of indifference - to succeed?

This is an Americanization of a non-pc and probably woke story. Laugh if you must but please don't tell people who wrote it.