The Doldrums: The Sailor and the Virgin Ch. 10 The quest for the selkie maiden Author's note: Several months ago, I left off this story after chapter 9. Thanks to encouraging reader feedback, the muse returned. The story is finished. Sunday The lass was gone. Liam moved swiftly about the cabin, endeavoring to think rationally while he pulled items out o...
It was Christmas 2005. I sat on the lounge floor with my sister surrounded by family and friends. The Christmas tree sparkled and after our dinner we had gathered round the tree to open our presents. As I felt Aunties soft parcel Mum whispered in my ear. 'Be grateful for what ever you receive. We all know Aunties a bit kooky. I've no idea what she's bought y...
Thanks a lot to techsan who edited the story pretty quickly and turned it into a better one. * The next morning he met Mrs. Sanders at the reception area of the hospital, introduced her to staff he knew by then and explained her how Anna didn't know about his involvement in the preparation of the house and the need to buy her some clothes afterwards so she...
It has been over a year since my previous story, and while this tale has a few of the same characters involved, it isn't necessary to have read the other story first, though I do hope this will stir you into reading the previous offering. For those of you who have emailed me in the past, I thank you, and hope to hear from you again, along with anyone else wh...
I stopped the car at the front of the house, turned off the engine and looked at the clock. Quarter to eleven. "Not bad," I mumbled. It had taken me two and three-quarter hours to drive from my flat in Chester to his house somewhere north of Lancaster. Actually it had taken two and a half hours to get to the gate and another fifteen minutes to get up the p...
My thanks go to Techscan and LadyCibelle for their kind assistance with the editing of this story and correcting the usual clangers that keep my critics so happily amused. But I'm sure you'll find something you don't like in the story somewhere. I would like to point out that my editors do not necessarily agree with my interpretation of the characters or t...
Chapter 19 I closed the bedroom door behind me gently. I had been tempted to slam it to show just how upset I was but that would have been childish. The suspicious, ungrateful bitch! I didn't know whether to scream in anger or cry in pain. I stood for a long time in the doorway looking around the room without seeing anything and barely registering th...
I woke and was up by 7.30, my head throbbed some but I was otherwise OK. The shocking events of the weekend had left their mark on me, I was exhausted but felt wired at the same time, was kinda weird really. Patty made a hearty breakfast which I wolfed down. "Today is the day then Rick?" "Maybe, I will check out my place but I expect her to show up at some...
I'm sat in arrivals, at the airport, waiting for my lover, who I haven't seen for thirteen months. He's a soldier, and has been in Afghanistan, fighting the Taliban, with the coalition forces. Also sat with me is my son Josh, from my first marriage, and in the double pram by my side, are the twins, a Boy and a Girl, that my lover gave me before he left. Fo...
I am sitting in my office looking out of the plate glass window and watching the men at work in their hard hats and tight jeans. Outside the sun is shining brightly, it is late summer and still warm. My mind is wandering back to the episode on the beach a week ago. I was on holiday in the Azores, the sun had been boiling hot and I had been laying on the roc...