An overweight girl working as a secretary gets a chance to move up in the company to become the boss's personal assistant. But because of her size, she wonders why her? She learns that beauty can be more than skin deep.
A story in the Toby Wakefield Stories Universe
While working at St. Bart's Catholic Church Toby Wakefield has sex with and falls in love with nineteen-year-old Sister Mary Cecile who is transferred back east to Baltimore and later appears in another Toby Wakefield story, "Rina Strelnicov."
A man reminisces about his relationship with his mother as he grew up from a little boy to a teenager. It is a tale that defies what is thought of as the norm. It is a situation that 'just happened.' Everyone involved was a decent person, but Freud would have had a field day with this one.
Larissa and Julian are married now and off on their working honeymoon to New Zealand, while Covid explodes all around them, with significant impact on their lives. Can they deal with a working honeymoon, and the impact of covid on their friends and family? And get enough good loving while they’re at it?
Love never seems to come without problems, large, small, serious or trivial. This story tells the problems of one family and how everyone dealt with them.
On his way home from work one day, William spots a homeless person sitting on the sidewalk panhandling for money. He'd seen panhandlers many times before but there was something about this particular person that made him circle the block for another look...
If you've read 'The Lost Child' this will make more sense, since it's Robin's story, from her point of view of being found by Charlie on the lake's rock bank two days after the boat crash. It will make sense if read first, however. Enjoy, please.
