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Extra Time 33
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Transitioning Mature / Thirty+ Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 33 In the end, it was Eric who came through with a result. Kate knew the right administrators to approach, but it was a man I hardly knew who moved and shook ...
Steph C - 2012/09/20 - 1:14am - 8 comments
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Extra Time 34
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Transitioning Mature / Thirty+ Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 34 I returned with the three parcels, and caught my wife’s eye as I approached. When I reached them, Hays was partway through a declaration of how old she wa ...
Steph C - 2012/09/27 - 11:19am - 11 comments
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Extra Time 35
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Transitioning Mature / Thirty+ Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 35 Why did I agree to sleep in a tent, in December? I was awake for one very simple reason, and that had been the impact of my wife’s sub-Arctic knees agains ...
Steph C - 2012/10/02 - 9:51am - 7 comments
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Extra Time 36
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Transitioning Mature / Thirty+ Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 36 We worked our way through the graveyard, following the old habit of looking for the oldest stone, the youngest and most tragic death. There, on the edge, ...
Steph C - 2012/10/09 - 10:33am - 7 comments
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Extra Time 37
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Transitioning Mature / Thirty+ Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 37 Morning, cold and dry, a skin of hoar frost on the tent’s fly sheet. I did the necessary after the night’s beer and found my wife emerging for her own das ...
Steph C - 2012/10/16 - 10:21am - 6 comments
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Extra Time 38
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Transitioning Mature / Thirty+ Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 38 “Aunty Jill, where’s the spare loo roll?” “Under the sink in the wooden cupboard” “They’re all wooden!” “The one that LOOKS like wood, Bethy!” “Oh, ri ...
Steph C - 2012/10/24 - 11:26am - 7 comments
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Extra Time 39
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Transitioning Mature / Thirty+ Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 39 It went on. I dropped in when I could, as the first session tore his health to shreds, and he would be there, silent and grey, staring into space. There w ...
Steph C - 2012/10/31 - 10:33pm - 6 comments
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Extra Time 40
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Transitioning Mature / Thirty+ Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 40 Ian was away not that long after his first session of treatment, and that was difficult enough for the girls. Perhaps even harder than seeing him trying t ...
Steph C - 2012/11/21 - 6:56am - 7 comments
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Extra Time 41
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Transitioning Mature / Thirty+ Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 41 I sat by his bed as he cried, holding his hand with my right while my left held the tissues ready. “I can’t do this any more, Jill!” I tried to pull my o ...
Steph C - 2012/11/25 - 10:16am - 6 comments
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Extra Time 42
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Transitioning Mature / Thirty+ Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 42 He was gone again, home to catch up on his job, Von driving, and I had to ask myself how in hell he was managing to keep it together over there. No girls, ...
Steph C - 2012/11/30 - 8:22pm - 4 comments
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Extra Time 43
a pot of tea. “Good night yestere’en?” She blushed at my grin. “You were, like, looking?” I hugged ...
Steph C - 2012/12/06 - 8:33am - 5 comments
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Extra Time 44
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Transitioning Mature / Thirty+ Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 44 Ian lost his job the week after Von took him home. Prolonged sick leave, unsatisfactory attendance, whichever snide form of words they used it came down t ...
Steph C - 2012/12/11 - 4:25pm - 4 comments
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Extra Time 45
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Transitioning Mature / Thirty+ Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 45 We were in red. That was Larinda’s choice, not gowns but sharp suits, red, with little pill-box hats with a wisp of a veil just for the convention, and it ...
Steph C - 2012/12/17 - 5:11pm - 5 comments
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Extra Time 46
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Transitioning Mature / Thirty+ Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 46 It sounds trite to say something as obvious about your own wedding day as ‘I will never forget…’ but that was a simple fact. Things happened, people were ...
Steph C - 2012/12/24 - 6:30pm - 8 comments
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Extra Time 47
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Transitioning Mature / Thirty+ Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 47 He held up so well I started to believe we were turning the corner rather than hitting the end of the road. Whitsun was good to us, and we had an extended ...
Steph C - 2013/01/10 - 9:45pm - 5 comments
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Extra Time 48
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Transitioning Mature / Thirty+ Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 48 My eyes went straight to Von, and I saw her stiffen. Reading her mind wasn’t necessary just then, for everyone who knew her would understand what it was s ...
Steph C - 2013/02/06 - 1:20am - 4 comments
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Extra Time 49
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Transitioning Mature / Thirty+ Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 49 We flew back two days later, work calling for most of us, and Ian due his ‘moderation meeting’ with Ellen and her shark. It had been a heated discussion, ...
Steph C - 2013/02/22 - 8:53am - 4 comments
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Extra Time 50
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Transitioning Mature / Thirty+ Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 50 That was a seriously odd arrangement. I mean, there were so many tents outside the church it looked more like some sort of festival than the wedding of a ...
Steph C - 2013/03/02 - 6:24am - 7 comments
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Extra Time 51
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Transitioning Mature / Thirty+ Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 51 We stayed the night, as planned, but Mam took her toy boy along with Ian and Von back to our place. Much as he would normally have loved to talk army game ...
Steph C - 2013/03/17 - 11:09am - 7 comments
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Extra Time 52
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Transitioning Mature / Thirty+ Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 52 I was being pulled in so many directions at once I felt I might tear down the middle. “Stop fussing, Neil. It’s a bloody wig; they don’t get ‘conditioned’ ...
Steph C - 2013/04/04 - 5:06pm - 7 comments