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Mike had become bored with his latest insurance job. All the people he had known at school had now gone on to either university or
had started their own careers in far off places. The summer period after they had finished school for good, that care free period that
had been a been a period of winding down for them after final exams, now seemed far away. All the things he had thought would happen
after leaving school did not seem to be happening.
Lydia was starting University. She was glad to be free of the pressure that her strict parents had put her under to study hard for
the exams. The summer weeks before university had been a period of freedom where she had been able to socialise in a way she had not
been aloud to before. She and Mike had been going steady for weeks but should they continue to see each other once University started?
Her parents would be expecting her to study hard.
Quin knew exactly what he wanted in life, and he had a way with people that allowed him to always get it. He had learned from an
early age that the only way to get on in life was to look out for oneself. At the moment he was going steady with Philippa, but he
knew the relationship would not last much longer. Mike was his best friend and had always stuck up for him when times had been bad.
But now he seemed to lack ambition to move on, Quin on the other hand knew how to connect with people and move into influential
circles.
And so over the following years while it seemed the others were making good lives for themselves it seemed Mike was destined to drift
through life, never to make long term commitments or make a big career for himself. But then one day when he had planned a weekend away
he finds one of his friends, homeless and broke and in a terrible state. It is a fateful meeting, what has happened, and how is it
connected with his other friends? Mike finds that this encounter could be a turning point in his life, but it could have an even bigger
a effect on those he considers friends.
It was a gloomy day when they set out to go to the funeral, along roads that went somewhere, but not along the routes that they thought they should follow. They lead instead to roads that are unfamiliar and to ever more isolated places. It does not matter which direction they go to get back to familiar roads, they are in a place that that has the same unfamiliar feel. But just blink once and there is something else to be seen that was not there before as the fog clears. Perhaps it was not meant to be that they attend the funeral.
Your best friend looks perfect, she has always been popular and has 'class' and style. She is everything you are not and next to her it seems impossible to shine, you become almost invisible. Yet at a Christmas party you seem to have a chance meeting with someone interested in you, and not your friend. He takes an interest in you and you, so unused to such attention, are swept off your feet. For a while you go along with events... and yet certain things start to cause you to have doubts....
Life has become set into a lonely routine for George Smith and it seems that he has become set into a rut and he does not know how to get
George must decide what he can do prevent his life from becoming stuck in the rut again. After avoiding his quiet local with its unwelcoming regulars George returns, and then he remember the pretty bar maid.. perhaps he should try and get to know her better?
How frightening is it when you suddenly hear a voice that seems to come from no-where. Abrupt and sudden in its warnings Janet is shocked and frightened. Her relationship with Terry was deteriorating and she seemed always to be the one a fault as far as he was concerned. Was she under such stress that she was now losing her sanity and hearing voices in her head? Yet, the voice was not in her head, rather it came from elsewhere. Although the voice terrified her with its warnings, she resolved to ignore it, to try and concentrate on mending her relationship with her partner.
A woman awakes from a nightmare and realises she does not know who or where she is. She sees that she is in a hotel or guest room but has no idea how she got there. What should she do, was she hiding from someone, had she been involved in some kind of traumatic incident that had caused her to lose her memory? Alone and lost she must decide what to do. What will she do to find a clue that could tell her what lead her to being in this hotel or guest house? She decides she must leave the room that was now a temporary shelter, the only place that was real to her, and face the unknown outside and terror that had lead her there. And so begins an adventure into self discovery, as a woman without identity tries to rediscover the events leading up to the morning she found herself in a living nightmare.
How valuable could a tortoise shell cat be? That is a question that starts to gnaw away at Bob after he hears that certain such cats can be very valuable if they are of a specific type; for he has just given away a cat that could be of the type described. So.. what should he do to get the cat back?
Friendship may not be all it is thought to be and love amongst friends not so much in evidence; you may think you know who your friends are,
but do not be lulled into a false sense of security. And stranger things are met in the following stories. Are there ghostly and ghoulish
encounters; or does the mind simply play tricks when you find yourself in extreme and tense situations; - or should they simply be shrugged off
as things that go bump in the night?
Rochelle Jones brings us a selection of stories based around human relationships, in ordinary situations where frightening or uncanny
situations arise; situations that prove to be not only out of the ordinary, but creepy at times and quite mysterious.
