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  1. Extra Time 17

    rounds!” “Worst attempt at a joke I’ve heard in years, love. Look, so far, all this change, me, the docs, ... had to be said, it had to be cleared up. “Larinda, all these changes have been for me, to let me be ... inch, and it’s not changed that much. I mean, there’s these things, but…” She settled herself more ...

    - 2012/07/13 - 7:48am - 5 comments

  2. Extra Time 18

    you suggesting? Do it as we are, or wait for the law change they’ve been arguing about? And do it ... change here, which is sort of on the cards, or we sod off abroad to somewhere that allows it and do it ... old lady to the netty while her man fetches her a change of knickers? What? He knows what I keep in me ...

    - 2012/07/22 - 9:39am - 3 comments

  3. Sisters 2

    a drink in the Union” The midget suddenly changed her chant to “Tell her!” and I realised I did indeed ... school. More forcefully, of course, in senior school, from twelve years of age onwards, in the changing ... leathers, changing into some neat jeans and a softer blouse. On with the heels, and sod it, that was four of ...

    - 2013/11/29 - 6:44pm - 4 comments

  4. Sisters 3

    smile turned into a grin. She reached out for my hand. “Fancy a change of air?” It was a short walk ... every box I had been so frightened of. The shouts, the threats, the instructions to go and change into ... you cry, I’ll go and change… I held her back, and saw Dad whisper something. Mam just nodded. Dad ...

    - 2013/12/26 - 10:21am - 5 comments

  5. Sisters 30

    on another, ym Mae Colwyn. Er, in Colwyn Bay” My wife was still bitingly frosty. “And this changes ... I mean, I said it, we’re family, kin, flesh and blood. That doesn’t change. But what she said, the two of ... “We’re sure. We owe you both so much. We can’t guarantee we’ll change her views on the world, but we can ...

    - 2014/10/07 - 3:37pm - 4 comments

  6. Sisters 67

    settled down a little after that, but the changes in my body kept the days from dragging. Both of us were ... reflections of a cloud of red to my left, as Siân bent to change a CD or fiddle with the heater, or I would ... leave Darren on his own. Never changes, this one. Now, there’s a number of reasons we’re here, not just ...

    - 2017/10/12 - 10:20am - 5 comments

  7. The Job 53

    read my mind, whispering “Take it as a compliment, girl. She might change her mind before she can make ... the benefit of the jury, that you explain the change? In your own words?” I could see she wanted to ... are of an age to change it, your preferred form of address is Charlotte. Is that a fair summary, Ms ...

    - 2018/03/09 - 10:52am - 10 comments

  8. Dancing to a New Beat 77

    Nobody changed, nobody had some mad revelation. Just like me, a couple of people looked at each other ... stay with you. We can’t go back and change the past, that’s obvious, so what we do is try and improve ... climbing footage. Subject changed in silent agreement, Steph was casting a critical eye over my technique ...

    - 2019/04/04 - 1:22pm - 2 comments

  9. Broken Wings 10

    short work of the ride up to the club, a sleeping bag strapped across the rear seat and a change of ... change, which was using my savings to pick up the house next door to mine when the elderly woman who lived ... I really was. Those, then, were the eighties. Shitty times, with even shittier music. Things changed ...

    - 2020/09/03 - 11:26am - 11 comments

  10. A Longer War 37

    factory in 1946 and never changed the mix. The ambulance boys wheeled me in, Susie walking beside me in ... Birth certificate says boy, and that’s set in stone. Can’t change history, they say. But yes, I am ... a fucking woman, just can’t get that across to folk, because folk don’t want to bloody well change” The ...

    - 2016/06/15 - 3:04pm - 12 comments

  11. Mates 19

    perception of her: privacy to change clothes. Even though I knew her history, my instincts were feeling that ... swings, mood changes, and that’s a confused area. Do I start reacting to things in a stereotypical girly ... change of subject there, he says in satisfaction. Where do you have planned?” “Keith was talking about ...

    - 2023/10/28 - 11:04am - 4 comments

  12. Cider Without Roses 40

    true, Georges?” “That you change boys into girls?” That was so very different from the question I had ... child. “Georges, my sweet, nobody can change a boy into a girl, nor a girl into a boy. Are you a boy?” ...

    - 2012/04/28 - 12:31pm - 11 comments

  13. Extra Time 44

    hurt me. It was odd how his mood had changed. The new therapy was helping remarkably, but the stronger ... playing the game had left me with little hiccups in my mental vocabulary. That was slowly changing, and ...

    - 2012/12/11 - 4:25pm - 4 comments

  14. The Job 55

    a short while after that, but it wasn’t exactly ‘normal, as it had changed so much. I felt all the ... a little wave, just to say ‘Hi!’. Tiff saw, and did the same, and I saw his face changed as he realised his ...

    - 2018/03/12 - 9:38am - 3 comments

  15. Dancing to a New Beat 63

    cleared off with some bloody pool boy from The Gambia and all the locks and card PINs changed as soon as ... seconds on his beer before speaking again, looking down into his glass. “Things had changed a lot in the ...

    - 2019/01/18 - 7:33pm - 2 comments

  16. Rainbows in the Rock 48

    my attitude to them was changing. In climbing guides, ‘interesting’ is often a euphemism for ... We have been looking at the way things have changed over the years. When we were young—don’t you look ...

    - 2023/03/12 - 10:21am - 2 comments

  17. Too Little, Too Late? 61

    and at that I decided I would hold back on my own drinking. Something had changed his mood. We carried ...

    - 2012/02/18 - 3:51am - 18 comments

  18. The Job 57

    adults, yes?” Money taken, change given, and into a lift. Dad, you absolute genius! All his planning, the ...

    - 2018/03/16 - 9:25am - 12 comments

  19. A Longer War 40

    Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 40 That was the start of a new and very different part of my life, but for some years I didn’t see it that way, more as a life new in every way. It took so long for me to understand that i ...

    - 2016/07/14 - 11:24pm - 13 comments

  20. Shooting

    Author:  Cyclist Steph C's blog Blog About:  Autobiographical Just finished a conference by phone, and it was chaos. There has been a stabbing, shooting and murder-by-car at our Parliament, and many of the people I was talking to were in lockdown, li ...

    - 2017/03/23 - 4:58pm - 15 comments

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