A man is exploring old mine workings and gets lost in the mist. He gets involved with a hill farm owner, the daughter, the neighbour, the police and very nearly gets killed.
Family gifts are passed down usually as little baubles, but sometimes they are a little more. Hunger may only be skin deep but family secrets run deeper.
My sister and I were half way through a road trip when we stopped at a hotel where we had reserved a two room suite. Because of flooding in the town our suite was given to a flooded out family, Shelby and I had to do with one bed and a fold out sofa bed.
A story in the Toby Wakefield Stories Universe
Fourteen year old Rosie Kowalski and her family moves across the street from Toby Wakefield. She becomes friends with Kathy Warren who is having sex with Toby. Kathy entices Rosie to join them in the woods where Toby, having been schooled in sexual matters by Sister Natalie, Mother Superior at the local Catholic Church. Toby takes Rosie's virginity and imparts his sexual knowledge that has so lovingly been passed on to him by the "worldly" nun.(Meet Sister Natalie in "Penguin's Preference").
It was in November that Brian broke his neck and became paralyzed. He still had motion in his arms but his fine motor skills and his fingers were affected. The nerve damage to his legs was complete and he would be using a wheelchair for the rest of his life. He wondered at the time if he would ever have sex again. It was only the following summer that his questions were happily answered by the personal care attendant he and his mother had hired.