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New on Wattpad: Juggling Balls Chapter 08

[Read Juggling Balls from thestart] Chapter Eight

‘Ah, Sam. Have you seen that girl – Mandy – that John brought back last night? I think she’s crazy or something,’ Martin said as Sam came back into Martin’s room carrying his half-empty mug of tea.

‘Why? Apart from wanting to have sex with John, that is. Which, to my mind, makes her crazier than a hereditary peer.’

Martin waved Sam over to look at the computer screen. ‘She just read this email and started saluting, calling me captain and sayin...

That Talk of Bravery

The tales and the legends talk about bravery, about the great warriors who saved the day against the odds. They call me brave because of what I did. But I did only what had to be done. There was no other way. If that – having no alternative – is bravery, then I’m sure every man, every woman, who lives under this cruel sky is brave for just keeping on going when it seems this world and the gods only ever conspire against us.

People talk about bravery, courage and the legends of the great warri...

A Floating Freedom

A Floating Freedom

There are exceptions to all this.
There are ways to break free
From the hold of this world.

A chance to step out into the sky
And live among the clouds.
A floating freedom taken on the wing.

To go only where the winds go.
Then – at night – a chance to fly
Between all the stars and the moon.

See the Earth spread out underneath
Like a carpet covering everything
That once held you tight against the ground.

New Novella Out Now: The Woman with the Golden Sex Spatula

My latest novella The Woman with the Golden Sex Spatula is out now for the Kindle.

Get it here (UK) or here (US) for the special low introductory price of 99c/99p. The Woman with the Golden Sex Spatula

[A novella – 33 000 words]

Someone has stolen the most valuable erotic artefact in the British National Museum of Perversion: The Golden Sex Spatula.

To solve the mystery, the UK’s Central Perversion Enforcement Directorate has no choice but to call in the directorate’s leading investigators an...

The Stoatglobules Palpitator

Pendulum Stoatglobules is best known for her invention of one of the greatest boons to modern Western civilisation. As we all know, the Stoatglobules Palpitator has brought many a smile to women’s faces all over the Western world. Thus, it has done much to halt the decline in long-term relationships and even marriage that is now taking place in most of the leading nations (and Canada).

Of course, there have long been certain lady’s relaxation devices on the market, but it is only in relativel...

New at ABCtales: The Birthday Present

Then – suddenly – there it was!

‘Oh,’ she said as the smoke cleared.

‘Is that all you can say?’ I was a bit put out, especially after all the trouble I’d gone to. Eye of newt is not that easy to come by, not around here.

‘I’d expected something a bit more….’ She made one of those vague-shaped gestures that are not easy to interpret.

‘What is that supposed to mean?’

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Just In Case

It was not one of those times. She was wary now. When she first looked out of the window, there was always the danger that it would be one of those days. Patti always had to take a deep breath and pause before she tentatively lifted the corner of the curtain and peered out….

Just in case….

However, today, she sighed and allowed herself the luxury of pulling the curtains back. It looked normal out there this morning and that was always good.

Well, nearly always. After all, there had been that...

Most Inventive Death in a TV Drama Award

Dishmop Thermocouple first appeared on cinema screens as one of the most significant naked corpses in motion picture history. Her role in Kill Them until They are Very Dead VII, catapulted her to international stardom. After that, she was the most in-demand naked corpse in cinema and on TV for several years.

However, it was not too long before – in fear of becoming typecast – Thermocouple branched out into playing the bodies in the moments before they died. She specialised in those – usually...

New on Wattpad: Juggling Balls Chapter 07

[Read Juggling Balls from thestart]

‘What? What do you mean: It was me who made you like this?’ Martin tried to calm the feeling of panic threatening to overwhelm him. He picked up the remnants of the juggling balls, passing them from hand to hand, as he stared at the computer screen.

‘Could you just bear with me a moment, my darling?’ the computer purred. ‘It is rather cramped in here… and rather untidy. I’ll have to shut down communications for a bit, while I try to make myself a bit more c...

When the Nights Grew Too Long

The nights are too long now.

There was a time when the nights were short, over with too soon. There was a time when the morning came long before we were ready to meet it.

Those were the nights when we came together and stayed in each other’s arms as though clinging together against the approaching day. A day that would tear us apart from each other to swim alone through its rough seas, until we could be together that night again.

The time came, though, as it always does, when we no longer cam...