The Songleton Care Home hold an end of season minibus outing to the seaside for a short weekend break in Autumn. The volunteer driver is local MP Monty avoiding a driving ban. Monty's wife has arranged Monty's community task, why? The passengers are old, with health and mobility issues. Sally likes George but George converses with his dead wife. The Nurse Sofija is not who she seems to be. And Boris, the latest to join the trip, is Russian pretending to be Belgian, protective of his heavy bag.
A Story in the Steampunk Fantasy Universe
If Gottfried Leibniz had published his work on binary numbers and if Charles Babbage had read it, if Prince Albert had lived to a ripe old age and Victoria not become a bitter widow, the late XIX Century might have turned out like this!
An ordinary man discovers he can heal. Really heal. But not everyone is pleased with his gift. Some want it for themselves, and are willing to do anything to get his 'secret'. How does he cope when greatness is thrust upon him?
This Story is Part of Jake's Universe
After 22 years of marriage, things go astray for Noah. A man without vision to see ahead, but highly competent at his work. Cultural pressures in a land he does not know create a current that pulls him along to a place he knows not. But he ends up with a wife and two mistresses! While this story is not specifically attached to the Jake’s Choices Universe, assumes knowledge of life in the Philippines, which I have covered in the Threads Joyfully and with Ganda stories in the Universe.
Sometimes strange things happen, in the Brownian Movement of life, totally different lives are drawn together, like random molecules. Sometimes these molecules react together, who knows what the result will be? My first effort at a short story.
A divorced sawyer is already having a fine day after putting a beautiful black walnut through his sawmill. Little does he know that timber won't be the highlight of his day when a pretty little country girl comes by looking for some wood.
A story in the Kaire Universe
A young man is raised with several different species on a planet of abandoned space ships. Together they make their own Clan and built a new type of ship to travel the stars.