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Bowled Over

Alex is having a bad day. A social hermit in a big city, his routine, orderly life is about to be disrupted. This is a story about chance encounters, and finding love.

Greg Barton

Greg is lost in grief, unaware of the world-changing events going on around him, as he tries to come to terms with losing his wife and daughter to a freak accident.

Hector Barnes’s Retirement

Hector has finally retired, after being in institutions all his life. His plans for a quiet retirement are thrown into turmoil when he intervenes in the apparent mugging of a young woman.

Kit the Intern

Kit has just got himself a job as an office boy, while he waits to join the army and learn a trade. Young, naïve  and eager to please, he soon ends up in hospital, the victim of a hit and run. The office administrator offers to rent him her loft apartment; her husband, a self employed-handyman has left her, a mystery that she doesn’t want to discuss, so when Kit unearths drawings hidden amongst his tools that hint at a planned heist… Kit isn’t sure what to do, and finds himself on the target list of a murderous organised crime gang.

The Green-Eyed Girl

Boy meets girl – so many stories deal with this subject. Maybe Ben’s reaction is a little over the top, but those of us who have had our breath literally taken away when they met “the one” might identify with his plight. 

No Good Deed…

John forgets that he is a little too old for heroics when he sees a young women being assaulted by three burley young teenagers. He rushes to her defence and wakes up in hospital to find himself being charged with rape and assault. A foreign veteran, he feels lost and bewildered by the mess he finds himself in. 

Tomboy Biker

Joe Banks is feeling lost; his wife has filed for divorce. The woman he loved since high school, the woman whose plans and ambitions he worked selflessly to achieve, no longer loves him. Joe agrees to everything she wants and doesn’t realise that he is about to lose everything.