The Way We Are

Ellen and Jack had such a glamourous lifestyle I couldn't help compare our lives with theirs...

    I clutched Paul’s hand tight as the plane banked and turned to land.
    “You’re not scared, are you?”   Paul asked with a cheeky grin.
    “No,” I told him.   “Just excited.”
    It was our first visit to Austria and I could hardly take in the quiet beauty of it all.   Paul and I had been married for two years, and this was our first holiday.   We’d sacrificed last year’s holiday to decorate our house and buy new furniture.
    “Oh, darling, this was really worth waiting for,” I said, squeezing Paul’s hand.
    He turned and kissed me lightly.
    “Good,” he said.   “I think so, too.”

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The Missing Body

“You must have heard it!” I whispered as I shook Sandra awake.   She yawned.   “Go back to sleep - you were dreaming.”   How I wish I had been...

    A sharp noise, like a door slamming, had jolted me awake.   In the other single bed in the chalet Sandra slept on, but I lay listening to the muffled noises from the chalet next door.

    “Shut up and let me sleep,” I muttered into the darkness.   “Some of us have to work tomorrow.”

    I turned over in the narrow bed and closed my eyes again.   Sandra and I had been determined to do something different this summer, and impulsively we’d applied for jobs in the gift shop of a self-catering holiday village in the South of France.

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Who Needs Love

I wasn't looking for a holiday romance.   Sun, sea and relaxation, that's all I wanted.   But life's full of suprises...

    The first time I saw Angela she was walking through Las Palmas Airport.   The second time she was lying on a sun lounger in a very brief bikini, her soft slender body turning golden brown.   She was one gorgeous lady.

    A suitably bribed waiter told me her name and that she was on holiday with her sister.   Which was all I needed to know.   From that it wasn’t difficult to engineer a meeting and dazzle her with my charm.

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