A modern romantic comedy.

Angus was a well known character around the ‘Ferry'.

Short story about life and lust!

Story about one night in the life of a man living homeless and alone on the streets.

*In which Hen goes into the city*

Short story about a couple coping with the imminant delviery of their child.

The place was a mess, ransacked.

I lost a leg when I was only three weeks old...

Lucian was confident he had seen the last of Ted, but his little friends were a different matter . . .

*in which Hen and Manley meet the 'harpies', and Hen goes out on the window ledge of the first floor*

Sometimes life can bring you down to earth with a Bump!

Short story about a young man finally coming to terms with his grief at losing two people close to him.

Frank Smith's Nether Region is an amusing fantasy/comedy
novel written by Daniel Ravi. It is the first of a trilogy which sees Frank Smith as the central character in each.
This particular excerpt sees Smith and his companions
attempting to find a method by which they might beat the hasty retreat necessary because of their stealing of other
people's property. Dangerous other people!

The world of TV is rarely as glamorous as it appears...

Memories of a dying woman.

A Review of 'Atonement' by Ian McEwan

(4th chapter of 'Manley & I' - harpies introduced.)

Dhruv did not prove to be a good foster father

Inspired by true events.

If this were a romantic novel, it would be said that she chose the rose with infinite care, sorting through them to find the one perfectly pouting with velveteen petals as full of fertilising growth hormone as a jaded starlet’s lips are with collagen.

Mystery Tour is a sort of Tales Of The Unexpected type story about three ageing people who have committed murder in their past and have gotten away with it...until now. The devil turns up and whisks them away on a Mystery Tour to damnation... This piece was tidyed up and published in Sarah magazine. An online magazine.

Mistletoe’s ma, sadly deceased and therefore unable to defend herself, had seemingly been in possession of a somewhat dubious sense of humour.

Well it was Monday morning and they were already two weeks into their great summer holiday.

A black comedy about a professional hitman has to carry out a job at a dental surgery. But his life-long fear of dentists and waiting rooms affects his confidence and forces some long-forgotten memories to surface.

My first submission in a long time! Nice to be back. Well, Daniel thought that reading minds would be fun. But it wasn't...

Marvin & Finola - New Mexico

The stamps she's buying are for normal purposes, paying bills and sending off a form, not for a valentine card.

A fun little short story... "she stepped in goose excrement."

This is one of my favourites, but warning it may offend.

*in which Hen lies in bed on a hot September night, writing on himself as he considers the past and the future*

*Edited version of the first chapter of this novel - Hen goes to do his laundry in his dressing gown, and confides to Manley his plans for a book about their adventures*

I realised that when we had Little Lucas (I am permitted to say WE even though my contribution to the birth process was much less intense than that of Mrs. Fat Louis….

Economics would say that anything will sell for the right price. Everything has it's own value and some things will have a higher value than others.
Is that true for peoples lives? If it is, how can you tell which life is worth more?

What connects the Edgbaston burglary to a gruesome railway accident? Steele investigates..

A story of love and madness....

This is supposed to be funny but you might disagree. I was going to make fun of old people-sex, see. But as always, there might be more. It occurrs in a nursing home, where a visitor seduces one of the inmates. One could call it "sexy" or "sad" or even "obscene" but I just think it's fun.

Minnie Hatherwell walked along the road in the way that only an ample black woman can.

Then as now I was trying to peep into the mind of a child. I don’t think I was fat by our standards, but by those of a hungry hard-working boy with a man’s responsibilities I was probably obese.

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(Second chapter of 'Manley & I' and needs redrafting. Questions for feedback: is it terribly wrong to introduce a whole raft of secondary characters at the end? Does it sound like Hen is just a mouthpiece for the author? Does it follow on too fast from the first chapter without helping the reader along?)

A shiftworker on a short fuse, The Sally Army Band and an Eskimo kiss leads to violence one Sunday morning. Lies are uncovered, young Billy is found out and Mr. Donaldson is triumphant in his pyjamas. The truth about Hitler is realised and a bully gets hurt. Just another Sunday in Firbank Road.

Yes, Jr UKA does still exist! And the gang is visited by aliens from Out-O-Place.

A very short story (first one I`ve submitted,so be gentle!)

This is just one of those exercises in 'being an animal'
that most people have had a go at. When I wrote it I had a sort of Blackpool landlady speech pattern running through my mind. Please read it in Lancashire!

To understand the art of coarse boating we have to go back in time and place to Ancient Greece.

A treatise on the old enemy, and a challenging proposal for the human race!

Who knows what happens in hotel rooms..........read on.

“Aww go on Vick, come to the shop with me.” Mark had been wheedling Vicki for half an hour.

what fills an empty vessel??

This is the first chapter of my first novel.

The story is set in the immediate future when human cloning has become a reality. It describes what might happen to relationships once we can duplicate people.