by John Donnelly | Apr 24, 2010 | Stories
Even I was shocked how bad it was. I trudged through the early-summer Ayrshire rain with the school-report. My fourteen year-old spirits lifted on seeing Grandpa Tom’s red Jaguar three-point-four in front of the house. My mother read in silence. After Grandpa...
by Leslie de la Haye | Apr 6, 2010 | Stories
I walked. No! I swayed across the living room remembering where the furniture was, where my wife Eve had arranged it. Lovingly arranged in the early years of our marriage. A time so long ago before that eventful day of that terrorist bomb in Malaya when a piece of...
by Paul Parker | Mar 26, 2010 | Stories
1995 Donnie Malloy was fat. He hadn’t always been fat. In fact, unknown to the majority, Donnie had been quite a hero once, a thin military hero. He’d fought his battles from Northern Ireland to the Gulf and back. Now, in his middle age, he faced a new battle, a...
by Steve Morris | Feb 17, 2010 | Stories
The cold steel doors slammed closed again. I distinctly remember thinking that night that it didn’t seem like a moment since I had locked up the night before. This was always the case when living by routines and, more so perhaps, a sign of age. I double-checked every...
by Jim Love | Feb 6, 2010 | Stories
( The Falklands 1982 ) We’d tabbed around the back of Mount Kent,passing the mortar positions. Some of the guys on the mortar line, had broken their ankles. This was due to the boggy ground, and the inability to get the mortars to bed in properly. So...
by Geoff Faragher | Jan 8, 2010 | Stories
There was a polite knock on the office door. The Naval Lieutenant Commander looked up from his paperwork and called out ‘Come in!’ A smartly dressed WREN opened the door and stood in the doorway. ‘Chief Petty Officer Bickerell to see you, sir.’...
