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The Red Church Doll
This story follows a piece of cloth which, in Roman times, is cut up into several pieces. One piece is specifically used as a hanky and is used right up to the present day when it arrives in a charity shop and is adapted for another function.
The White Cockerel
Lord Eden and his wife cannot afford to keep their manor house running. Lady Eden has longed for children and it has had an effect on her whole life. The village of Fenwich is affected by a great storm bringing down the large stone cockerel from the parapet and changing all their lives forever.
Ball Rooms
You can find balls or ball shaped objects everywhere in this world. Some are naturally produced like flowers or rock formations, the rest are carved or manufactured for practical use or pleasure. Nature does not like corners but curves, the ultimate form of this is a ball.
This is a story of an old gentleman who goes to a local hospital for an examination and ends up being faced with different challenges in rooms of balls as he travels through a series of rooms and tunnels in search of the golden ball which was taken from him.
Absorbed by a Woman
Some women just love men, but this woman was different, she absorbed them. Unfortunately, they were not fully absorbed, leaving small, brainless and senseless projections attached to the woman’s skin. These projections had devastating consequences for the life of Mary among the Sisters in a convent on a small island. This story begs the question, why do women need males at all?
The Slothful Wife
This fictional story relates an evolutionary relationship between the behavior of sloths and a woman who has similar anatomical structure and behaviour. Put under extreme pressure by her violent, drunken husband she strikes out with her claws, but suffers the consequences of her actions
The Tuppeny Bear
This fictional story concerns a small boy called Daniel who tries unsuccessfully to win a small bear on an arcade machine. He eventually succeeds on Christmas Eve but an accident means he loses this treasured possession, but has he?
The Boy who found Christmas
Christmas has become just another holiday with packed shops and frenzied last minute shopping often buying presents which are not always wanted. Millions will spend the weekend before Christmas being dragged through the crowds. Happy holiday, season’s greetings, they shout. Christmas is just another way for companies to cash in. It is pure commercialism encouraging the spend, spend, spend, attitude. A time to indulge yourself and diet in the New Year. To waste money and even more in the January sales. The whole essence of Christmas, like marriage for some today, is a joke a show, something like halloween. A time to give presents, but the greatest present is Jesus, God’s son, who came to give us hope and light in this troubled world and life everlasting.
This book is about a little boy called David who wants to know what Christmas really is, not a commercial vacuum but in everyday life. A spirit puts him in the picture.
Nothing but Leaves
Many of you have watched the autumn leaves float down to the ground carpeting the earth bronze gold and copper. Some have kicked their feet through piles of leaves. Many may have also seen the small helicopter blades of the sycamore seeds spiral down to the ground. This story is about a leaf. It was the last leaf on the tree, the rest had fallen. Eventually it fell and was taken up into the sky by the wind. It journeyed on far from its home but eventually fell to rest at night in the dark only to find that unlike other leaves it would become something treasured, hidden but never forgotten like the memories of its owner.
The Giants Toothpick
Giants are rare these days, but a huge one is generated from an object flying from space. A hermit witnesses the events that take place after the giant’s arrival which will leave a permanent effect on the people, landscape and future a small island.
The Night Mare
Have you ever see figures or shapes of objects formed by clouds in the sky or in tree trunks. This story is about a small boy who sees a horse’s face outlined in the trunk of a rotten tree and witnesses a transformation which echoes from the past.
Exodus to a Leaf
Dominance by humans was no more. Evolution had produced a spectrum of various kinds of unusual animals. A small population of humans remained on the earth but were only a few millimetres tall. At this size they were vulnerable to every kind of predator. They found themselves trapped within a piece of wood patrolled by insects and finally, on their exodus, live inside a leaf.
The Forlorn Fruitfly
A story that embraces our different appearances or physical deformities as something that all should accept in nature’s realm.
New attributes can come to the forefront which would never have been seen before. It’s not what we look like. Nature has moulded unimaginable forms which through mistakes or accidents may undermine what we think is the norm.
Disability should not be seen as a hindrance. Resourcefulness and determination can outshine any handicap. You are yourself, you are you and nothing or nobody is going to change it. You have the right, just as every creature on this earth has, to exist and be who you are.
This story is about a little fruit fly born with shrivelled short wings. Unlike the other flies he cannot fly away and is vulnerable to being ridiculed or eaten by other creatures. While living on a plum in a farmer’s field he is subjected to abuse by various insects but manages to overcome this and survive through winter.
The Nursey Rhyme cat
Near a big city lived a very wicked witch. She had lost one of her cats who ran away. She found it eventually, but forced it to live in her nursery rhyme book forever. While inside it ran amuck so that the stories were never the same as before.
The Old Pot and The Golden Shoes
Most people would like a pot of gold, but things are not always as they seem. This story tells of a mother and son who become rich, but a golden life has its consequences and is not the real answer to happiness.
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