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She kept on looking at the back of her left hand, sometimes held it up to catch the light. “Why did you choose that colour?” “The green stone is a gem stone called a garnet and I thought it would match you lovely eyes.” She held her hand by the side of her face, so that I could see both eyes...

Amelia is a competent and highly qualified professional First Officer on a small cruise ship that has been chartered for South China Sea trip. She has essentially maintained her aloofness and independence until she meets the ship’s Captain when her resolves begin to crumble. The passengers on the...

This is East Africa at the end of the 20th Century. Sophie has just emerged from a messy divorce, whilst Nick is trying to work on an ODA contract with the local government officials. They do eventually get together in the Masai Mara Game Reserve! It's not the lions they have to worry about - it's the Hippos- they to worry about!

Limericks have a very definite stanza, which is ‘a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem’. Limericks also contain a great deal of ‘puns’ which take two forms; ‘The man whose left side was cut off, but he’s all right,’; but alternatively many puns are also...

After working and living for over fifty years in Africa and Asia Adam Mann has put together some interesting stories about life. Here are sixteen tales, but watch out four are a bit naughty and really for adults only. The stories range from about 1970 in the North of Nigeria, to life in the Swat valley and poppy fields in the Indus basin. The author now lives peacefully in East Asia.

Two men in the process of retiring from their employment, decide to take a seaside holiday together. They choose a seaside resort on the south coast and book separate rooms in a good hotel. Horace meets Helen as she gets locked out of her room, whilst Hector who is a retired publican meets Hannah...