This weeks Podcast is a sensitive Short Story titled ‘A Twist of Glass’, from my collection, Firelight on Dark Water… Tales of the Warm and Wonderful.
I didn’t think too much about this story after I had written it. In fact, it hid amongst the dross on my computer for years before I
took it out and read it again. Then it made me cry. (No, it’s not
that bad, I’m just a soppy old sod.)
It’s a story about all the daftness that surrounds young love…
the myths that we grow up with from the playground about how it
will be and all our dreams of finding that perfect someone and
how they will fill our lives to capacity and love will thrum our
hearts like the strings on a double bass.
All true. And it all happens. But none of it is as good as the
anticipation of seeing that one truly undeniable sign that this is the
one… that this person is the culmination of your teenage hopes
and dreams… or as devastating as the worry that you are not going
to be strong enough to deal with it.
Thomas needn’t have worried. What he’d found that day in the
Post Office was nothing short of perfection… and she would be
strong enough for both of them…
