Tag: Parting
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Hallbury Summer – Episode Eleven Grounds for Suspicion
The story so far: Joseph Palliser has taken his friend Tom Peterkin into his confidence, so at last we know the strange circumstances and the drug-induced state affecting Marian Brubaeker at the time of her death. In his turn, Tom hints at his suspicion that his wife Emma (née Blanchland) still has feelings for Joe.…
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A Place that was Ours. Chapter Fourteen – A fractured Dream.
On the street the temperature was dropping, and clouds from the east were threatening snow. I hurried home, mindful of my mother’s words and the conversation that was beginning in my head. Was she right? Was it possible a girl with whom I once spent twenty minutes of inexpert passion on a river bank…
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Waste Disposal
“I think I asked you to put out the trash, didn’t I?” Amie asked. “I did, didn’t I?” “Amie, clearing the refuse isn’t time sensitive. I’ll do it after I’ve finished.” Malcolm, frowning with concentration, applied a wing strut to his model of the ‘Wright Flyer’. It was his sixth attempt. The glue wouldn’t let…