Cherrypicked stories

What do two people owe each other when fate has made their lives impossible to resume?

I should preface this very light piece by saying that I completely misunderstood the brief! Therefore this is one of two stories using the same song - this one, which is ridiculous, and doesn't meet the requirements at all, but which I didn't want to throw away, and a further one to come that I hope wont be.

Chapter Five. The Library. Breakfast the next morning was so substantial that doing anything afterwards felt wildly ambitious. There were eggs,...

Continued from Chapter 55: Bron-55 | ABCtales Tommy looked up from his toy truck and bus collection that he’d arranged neatly on the lino of the...

Chapter Five. Calizone's Cottage. Inga and Babbin continued along the forest road. The deeper they went, the more the trees leaned over the track,...

Lesley will never know the opportunity she missed...

Chapter Four. Into the Dark Forest. At the end of the week, they reached the place where the road divided. One track led toward Grimbridge; the other...

By the time Alan clocked off from the Plessey site on Sutton Road, the sky was already a black and starless maw. The kind of hungry darkness that...

He told the deputy he was all right. It came out steady. The young man bent back to his box, and the year settled around the reporter again. Nineteen...