When fifteen-year-old Stroma does a poor job of writing a personal profile for English class, her teacher, Mrs Adams, forces an examination of her detached attitude. Entropic adult events when she was ten destroyed a close friendship, her granny and left her bitter. Looking back to that summer can she shake off her lethargy? Those despised and loves lost she needs find to help her regain her life.

Hypolite is a reconstructive dentist torn between his self-centred, masculine simple-mindedness and a meditative, caring feminine side wishing to please. Past influences and an innate scepticism have made him internally morose in his search for griefless sexual relationships. This tenuous male attitude is his vulnerability when his vain life is upset by a meeting with the mysterious Marisha.

Well know you like them ... more short Stories for Scotland and free to read, now there's a wonder ... enjoy.

A few more Short Stories from a Scottish slant and a couple of poems in the mix. As to what constitutes a Scottish slant on things I could not quite say. Hard knocks shake the bloom of all others around the world but we have forty ways to describe degrees of rain

Following the success of Scotfree Tales From Scotland, Scotfree2 is now available for downloading. However, instead of nine tales, this time only six. How mean is that?

In a future world, confident teenager Eska is not the average, fun-seeking teenager she appears. Instructed by her teacher, Saurin, to help Lyking to achieve a step at school, she discovers a malevolent force intent to destroy her. Torn by an attitude of why-bother, Saurin leads her towards to search for, Cliva, a teenager from the dregs of life who knows nothing of their connection and purpose.

Short strores inspired in Scotland in which, people discover universal truths about themselves.

Waitress - a human-interest-romance story - explores through single mother Lucy, the contortion of myth and narrative to control people’s lives. Lucy’s attempt to transcend societal illusions fails and her child is challenging. Migrant workers Katrazyne and Modra promise intimate salvation, however, former acquaintances, plausibile evil, hypocrisy and secrets conspire against her.

Disillusioned with police work in an Edwardian spa town, Duncan Gow’s renewed but unlikely relationship with the unorthodoxly stunning Haldane sisters has made him confident. Margaret, Eupheme and Sibylla titled ladies, girls he once met as a young boy when their romantic notions equated him with the mythical warrior-poet, Ossian. The friendship may lead to love or it may destroy them all.

Claiming he knows her a stranger challenges Asa to revaluate her life and relationships, which uncovers repressed memories of love, risk and abuse. The stranger, Cameron, gradually remembered by Asa, unleashes from her past a mixture of emotions that indicate, she desires love. Is Cameron intent on replaying a time best forgotten for its dread?