Devoted
Writer Ray Connolly spent six months in hospital fighting Covid 19. This is the story of how he survived.
Blue Christmas a short story (December 20, 2022)
Alan had never been a fan. Not like his mother. When she was 70, and still liked to go on … read more
Sam and the Monkey Suit
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The Fancy Dress Party
Sam had a problem. His friend Abbie was having a fancy dress birthday party on … read more
A Second Chance – The Moment That Changed My Life (an edited version of this article appeared in The Guardian – November 17, 2021)
A second chance – that’s what I was being given when, having skirted death during that first round of Covid, … read more
Out Of His League
She was out of his league, no doubt about that. Beautiful, fair and expensively casual, she was reading … read more
The List
Helen heard the news at the monthly lunch party. All the wives who regularly gathered at the … read more
Love in a Sandpit
He cried that first morning – although that wasn’t what he’d expected would happen. His mother had taken … read more
I Saw Her Standing There
Suddenly he was apprehensive. Was he making a terrible mistake? What was the point in all this? He … read more
Let Nothing You Dismay – A Christmas story
Harry watched as Amy, the tip of her tongue poking from between her lips, compiled her list. Finally … read more
Penelope As Nevermore
‘A virus?’
‘That’s what they said. And they can’t fix it!’
‘It’s a twelve hundred pound laptop, … read more
