Inge Ekland, a beautiful chambermaid in the High House of the Crown Prince is discovered in bed with him by the Queen who packs her, her husband and the four children off to Liverpool to prevent a royal scandal. The son of the Crown Prince is born halfway across the North Sea. Inge’s husband loses all the money given to them by the Queen in a card game on board ship so they land at Liverpool docks homeless and penniless. Ekland goes off to drink in the tavern but Bailey, a hardware/grain s...

DON WISE is a clever scientist but he is obese, ugly, and has big ears. In addition, he stutters, is tongue-tied with women, and isvery awkward in his body language. He has a crush on an old school friend whom he hasn’t seen in years and a mishap in the computer of an marriage agency brings them together. However, they only write to each other for almost a year and he realises that he has to meet her to continue the relationship…but he is terrified of doing so because he knows he will be a...

This anthology of stories comprises tales of romance, comedy, horror, revenge, fantasy and intrigue as well as many situations relating to love, life and prosperity... each one with superb characters that bring them alive and each one with a twist in the tail. You will really enjoy reading them.

Charles and Jennifer Roach are a deeply devoted young married couple who live in Cornwall. On wintry night, when snow and ice covered every inch of the ground, they go for a walk with a neighbour’s dog which rushes out into the road. At the same time, a large truck appears over the hill and the driver, trying to avoid the dog, crashes into Jennifer, killing her but he becomes a hit-and-run driver because he moves on without stopping. Charles is devastated at her death but later is surprise...

When his sister collapses and is taken to hospital where she lays in a coma, her brother goes to her bedroom to collect some of her items she will need in the hospital. He sees her personal diary and picks it up. He has not seen her for fifteen years and knows nothing about her past. He was fourteen when she ran off with a schoolmaster to marry him in Gretna Green so he was curious to know what had happened to her in that time. The revelations set out in the diary amazed him. In the meanti...

GREAT SHORT STORIES is an anthology of fourteen stories comprising comedy, sci-fi, logic, romance, drama, and some fantasy tales, as well as other genres comprising great characters and novel stories. You will not only enjoy them but they will stick in your mind after you have read them as they are all truly original.

Sam Ross’s wife dies in a car crash after finding him in bed with another woman. After the funeral, he decides to trace his family tree and, as he is Jewish, he reckons that he might trace his ancestors back four thousand years when they hauled stones as slaves to build the pyramids in Egypt. His grandparents all came form different countries and he begins his quest in Minsk in Russia, and goes on to Iasi in Rumania, Warsaw and Ulm in Germany where he meets a young woman with whom he falls...

An old man dies and his spirit goes to Heaven, but it turns out to be entirely different to anything he had ever imagined in his mortal life.He discovers that it is governed by very strict rules, many of which goes against the grain especially when he has to account for all the bad things he did when he was alive.. One of his tasks is to be sent back to Earth as an Accompanying Angel to report on a Seraph and later returns to unravel a situation that could affect the whole planet. He meets...

NEIL WAVERLEY returns home one evening from the major bank branch in the centre of London bank where he works, to discover that his wife has left him. She leaves a note to say that she is leaving him after having had an affair with another man for the last six months. He is absolutely devastated and very angry at her deceit and he cannot get over the fact that his life is in ruins. He finds solace in the company of PAULA STRATTON, a woman who has just joined the amateur dramatic society th...

Jeff Hunter’s wife is killed in a hit-and-run accident which leaves him devastated. However he is plagued by her apparition because she tells him she cannot move on to the next world until the rapist and killer of a murdered young girl is found. She tells him it is imperative that he finds the murderer albeit it took place some years ago and no one was ever arrested or punished for the crime. Hunt is an architect but he is forced to turns detective to find the criminal and he finds himself...

Clement Davies, the trouble-shooter in the Imperial Bank is found dead and John Rigby is appointed in his place. Despite the promotion and extra salary, he doesn’t want the job and makes a deal to do it for only three months. However, on the very first day he has to deal with a number of difficult problems, not least a man with a bomb in a holdall in the Manager’s office of the bank demanding the contents of the safe, a demonstration of hundreds of people outside the front of the bank, a c...

The story is divided into two sections which meet in the latter part of the work but both relate to the Botallack mine in South Cornwall. The first involves a group of Russian students who defect to the West seeking political asylum from the British Government. However the incident causes international dissent from the Russian government, to the embarrassment of the British government and the students are hidden away in a remote spot in Cornwall until the dust dies down. Ivan becomes their...