A tired worker just wants a bite to eat on the way home, but his evening changes when an Asian couple have a fight and the husband storms off leaving the wife in the pub car park. She makes a mistake and takes out her anger on the our man's van. Big mistake and she pays.
This story is written in three distinct parts. The first two parts of the story deal with the lives of the two main characters up to the point where they are eventually brought together by circumstance, the third part covers the events that happen after that introduction.
Rachel went to a night club looking to see what might happen. The only men she met were not the kind of men she would ever associate with until she discovered something about herself.
I hope this account of what happened to me, will forewarn all decent mothers with coming of age boys, of what can happen if you suddenly weaken to their sexual advances! ... ... Just say No!
I wrote this story over twenty-five years ago, and it's still one of my favorites.
A timid little man, with a very active fantasy life, finally finds love in this very short story.