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My Short Stories

The Fingerprint Expert
Buttermilk Pancakes
The Partner
The Christmas Message
The Webmaster's Wife
La Neige, La Neige

Work in Progress

Kate McCann Her Memoirs

Someone, it could be you knows what happened that night at the Ocean Club holiday resort in Praia La Luz on May 3rd, 2007.You must feel burdened just by knowing.If you do not help the parents this knowledge will feel like a heavy stone pressing on you all of your life and maybe beyond. It is not too late to help.Do something good and tell the secret.

Tribute To Norman

A hope that the woman who pick the saffron flowers may sing one of their songs just for him, as they toil under the sun of Castilla La Mancha. I could never forget you Norman, never ever.

June Day

We All Died At The Heartlands Hospital Today, one stayed there the rest walked away.

This story becomes a trilogy.

The Artists Holiday

The painter finishes his work but characters keep appearing that he hasnt drawn in - develop story line.

The Forensics Guy

Oh eternity, oh grey heavens, oh God who will help me now? Keep calm I told myself do not panic think, think, focus the golden hours we havent got much time she could be taken then again she could be lost trying to find her way home without money. Drive, call people look hurry how can I not panic this is just the worst thing that has ever happened. I felt so sick and then went into deep unreal calm. I gave the police lists of numbers to call Black walnut trees grow to approx. 30 metres in height The bird cherry tree produces white almond scented flowers in the Spring

Where Did You Go

My apartment was on the second floor almost in the boughs of the trees, the autumn leaves looked like baby birds leaping to their deaths. The wind was blowing and I sat on my chair watching outside for a long time. Undisturbed until that phone call came, the call that made me want to stay in that chair for evermore but I didn`t some how I got up.
Melissa aged eight years old, my child had gone missing.

About My Stories

Short stories include: The Webmasters Wife, The Christmas Message, The Partner, The Old Girls Trip To The House of Lords, What Was Left - these are just five of the titles you will receive out of your fifty-two. Click here to read extracts of the stories.

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The Webmaster’s Wife

"Anna sat opposite to her husband Mark in the bookshop’s cafe. It felt to her that he was slipping away like a golden magical ball with a momentum all of its own slowly disappearing over green rolling hills silently without drama but definitely, as if by magic vanishing."

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Buttermilk Pancakes

"Take your tears somewhere else Josie. You could electrocute herself around here – water and electricity just don’t mix. You used to be a scientist so you should know that. I was a chocolatier Anna. “Please don’t say that” “But its true Anna, its time to start listening to the truth, maybe then you will start getting better”.

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The Partner

"Tim turned the wheel of the car and drove onto the broad drive of a gothic period house that had been converted into a restaurant and hotel. 'This is one of my favourite eating-places”; He said without looking at her - yet during the twelve months that she had known him he had never mentioned the place before."

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• Frank McGarahan murdered after he shouted to a gang to stop attacking a lone homeless person.
• Bridge End County Wales twenty suicides in twenty months 12.09.08
• Barrister shot dead by the police - save him, turn the clock back.

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Sophie J Rush

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