Short Stories

General fiction, humour, comment and satire.

Cherry

A LIKELY STORY! (Inspiration Point)

Men who read this will wince, women will snigger, cruelly!

A Lost Weekend

A lost weekend, a vanished village and a hotel that isn't there, all unexplained
Cherry

ASKEW STREET 1940

A personal Dragon.

BASIL

Every town needs a Basil!

Be Sure Your Sins will.......

They will find you out. They Will I tell you!

BEING ENGLISH

Being English---My View.

BIG DAY FOR BIG GEORGE

In a children's story anything can happen....and often does.

CHEZ MOI.

My most memorable meal.

Who Killed Robin Koch?

So who did it then?
Cherry

The Pie Shop.

Memory Lane leads me there.

Zero per cent interest.

It wasn't a fair contest

The BIG Match

Memories Ah! Memories.
Cherry

JACK AND………..

The green numbers of the digital clock on the dashboard said two minutes past one. Time, I thought, to knock off, have a cup of tea and get something to eat.
Cherry

O S C A R

Be careful if you ever think of buying a Parrot.

THE PROSPECT OF WHITBY.

The best laid plans of mice and fishermen!

Observations on single faith schools.

Observations on single faith schools.

JOSHUA’S WAND

The Bestest Boy in the World.

It was her, wasn't it? (Inspiration point).

Inspiration point meets Love Story meets mystery.

Happy as Larry. (Inspiration Point)

Who was Larry anyway and what made him so cheerful?

The School Play (Inspiration Point)

My true intent is all for your delight.
Cherry

Sally's Wedding (Inspiration point(s)

I've known her all my life, we grew up together; went to the same school, still live next door to each other in the same road, in the same part of the most expensive area in the county.

From Highbury to Emirates or A Long Way for Some

From Highbury to Emirates is a long way for some.
Cherry

THE GREEN DOOR.

So how did she open the GREEN DOOR?

Nine Oaks Manor

The remaining leaves on the trees disappeared overnight...as leaves always do in late Autumn, particularly when driven by the ferocity of the wind and rain of the night before.
Cherry

Submission

I don't know if it's possible to express dismay and relief at one and the same time but if it is, I just did. He'd demanded two-hundred! last time it had been fifteen-hundred and I'd struggled.

THE ROYAL

From the early nineteen-fifties to late sixties everyone went there. Well that's what it seemed like at the time anyway.

The Pie Shop. Chapter Two. SAM

You could have cut the atmosphere with a knife, even one of those battered old knives with cracked, brown wooden handles they gave you in The Pie Shop when you collected your pie and mash or whatever.
Cherry

THE PIE SHOP. Chapter Four. Ollie's story.

"Ollie's Mum came to see me today!" This news, given by my mother as she served our evening meal, was received by my family in silence.
Cherry

THE PIE SHOP Chapter Five Roy's Jinx

This sort of luck you can do without!
Cherry

THE PIE SHOP. Chapter Six. Benny's Love Story

We all have a talent of some sort it seems.
Cherry

THE PIE SHOP. Chapter eight. GOSSIP.

The nineteen-fifties was a confusing decade.