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A Sense of Relief

Here is a new made-up true short story about being caught short featuring a golden retriever, a service station on the A2 and a lucozade bottle. You may not think of Lucozade bottles in the same way again. Max is panting on the back seat, unsettled by the speed at

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No Sleep til Roskilde…

Here is a new made-up true short story which takes place 27 years ago in the summer of 1996 – a certain international football tournament has reached the semi final stage, Britpop is about to hit it’s sell-by-date and a new pop band is waiting in the wings with a

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Sleeves – the Shop that Comes to YOU

Here is a new made-up true short story for your reading pleasure about the very brief time I worked in fashion. It’s all true, apart from the bits I made up (the Kevin Bacon Footloose bit, for example), and it takes about 6 minutes to read. You can download it right

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The Quilt

A new made-up true short story, hot off the press.  This one is called The Quilt and here is the pitch… Dave Quilty is a builder who loves playing his guitar. The trouble is that no one wants to listen, and he can’t get a gig anywhere. But when, unexpectedly, he

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A Night in Dieppe

I have just finished a brand new made-up true short story. It’s called A Night In Dieppe, although I may rename it Molly Ringwald and the Onions, or maybe just Molly and the Onions. But you will have to read it to find out why. Here is the gist… A wannabe

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