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.
Kellie gets injected with a serum which makes her shrink. Her downsizing rapidly takes her into the subatomic world of a 2" square aluminum cube, where she discovers that physicists have it all wrong. This trip was not made of her free will. She is unwillingly sent ahead to test the new serum. A rewrite of a story posted by my wife in 2001 & 2013.
Caroline Lyndsey's Mum plays meticulously planned April Fool tricks on her every year but last year her Mum almost went too far and threatened her daughter with a broken family. So this year Caroline early recognises the set up to make her an April Fool once again. Caroline enlists the help of her older brother, confirmed bachelor, Mason. Can an idea suggested by her FWB of an unlikely engagement for Mason and an unworldly beauty really work to trump her Mum's April Fool?