by Ashley Roden | Sep 3, 2009 | Stories
Once upon a time in a plush pad in Neve-never-land there lived an auntie and two ugly birds called Priscilla and Anastasia. Living with them was an au pair called Cheze. Now it seems that one day the auntie, who looked like the back end of Ella Sphiz, (Ella Sphiz, by...
by Ashley Roden | Sep 3, 2009 | Stories
The ‘Entomologist’ It was a dark and dismal day and New Zealand lived up to its soggy reputation. The driving rain lashed almost horizontally at the building site, driven by a ferocious wind that snaked and curled around the temporary structures causing them to rock...
by Guy Cecil | Sep 3, 2009 | Stories
TO ALL MY CHILDREN [And Friends} MY CAREER IN THE MILITARY by Guy Cecil During the summer of 1938 there had been talk of war against Hitler due to his demands in Europe. In October we all thought war was about to break out, so I went to the drill hall at Catford on...
by Sally Patricia Gardner | Jul 22, 2009 | Stories
Bobby was really fed up. I mean, he loved Lizzie desperately, with a passion that he had not known he was capable of feeling. Surely he constantly made that obvious in a million ways? Her health was so fragile that he worried incessantly about her, to the extent that...
by Joseph Kaval | Jul 20, 2009 | Stories
It was Kiran’s tenth visit. He wanted a definite answer from Meenu. He asked, “Meenu, how long will we go on like this? You are inside the cage. I am outside. In between there is the iron mesh. We can talk for hours. At the most we can only kiss through the holes of...
by Ruth Rayment | Jul 9, 2009 | Stories
His name was Christopher Gordon Rayment. Born July 2nd he grew into the Rayment regime History Background and was lively full of soul and passion for helping those around him those who needed to laugh, those who needed support and encouragement, those who needed a...