Tag: luck

• Thin Ice – Another from the Archives…

  There will always be dysfunctional people. Just as there will always be those who skate elegantly across the pond of life, so there will be those for whom life is a gauntlet of thin ice. I remember once, in discussion with a colleague about a stroke of misfortune that had visited a then-girlfriend, George remarking […]

  frederick anderson

  May 13, 2020

  Short Stories, Social Comment

  breakdown, fortunes, luck, relationships, romance

• A Place that was Ours.  Chapter Ten – Secrets

    I don’t really recall what my expectations were when I left Rossiter’s Hotel that July evening, coaxing Carlo’s elderly scooter back into town with a large folder protruding from under my jacket.  All at once the game I had supposed could never be more than an absorbing pastime threatened to consume my whole life.  […]

  frederick anderson

  February 24, 2018

  Uncategorized

  Chapter Ten, contract, fiction, football, Friendship, goals, jealousy, journalism, love, luck, romance, secrets, Serial

• Cat

  This, the man decided, as his eyes took in the comfortably chintzy living room with its gentle colours and mysterious nooks and crannies, was the most unbelievable stroke of luck!  Not an hour since, the lady who owned this house had been a total stranger; a far-off star of loveliness way beyond his reach. Since […]

  frederick anderson

  December 29, 2016

  Uncategorized

  apartment, beauty, cat, comversation, desire, feline, luck, lust