The Mark
by Margo Jackson
Two loners, an internet connection, a forbidden friendship. No good can come of this.
Two troubled and lonely people meet online and start an email friendship. She's a schoolgirl and street-wise, so she thinks. He's an older man, a social misfit, already known to the police, a marked man.
No danger, as yet - but he's a fantasist and she's a girl who breaks rules.