Tag: marriage
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Meeting on the Motorway
He was driving home, not for the first but the third time this week, and he was tired. Paul’s weariness was an insidious thing, . It had begun not weeks but months since, an insistent fatigue beyond sleep’s cure with roots that grew a little deeper each day, spread a little wider each week; so…
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Nowhere Lane. Chapter One
Preface This is my apology for a proper author’s preface. A few weeks ago I posted the final chapter of a short novel which was a writing experiment. It proved to be quite popular, I think (thank you to all my new followers) but I hesitate to impose a new book on my long-suffering readers,…
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A Place that was Ours. Chapter Eighteen – Premiership
So my story must assume a mantle of years, rather than days; the tale of my growing up is told, and now, from a spring of frequent storms, you could say my summer days began. In the season of 1989-90, as Hamish Merchison predicted, Carlton Park was promoted to the English First Division,…