Perspectives: A Short Story

Perspectives: A Short Story

Mar 05, 2023

My latest short story, PERSPECTIVES, is available for download, free of charge!

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Determination is a good thing, but can be a mistake if the goal reached is other than expected. Thawing out one’s ancestors has never interested me. Why should it? Dad took off with another female and Mum never saw him again while I became a member of the Unwanted War Babies Society.


My only recollection of dad was a receding greatcoat with one arm clutching a radio. I was four; thereafter Mum never spoke of him unless I asked a specific question. I knew nothing of the man apart from his birth certificate that came to light after Ma’s death; a Court Order requesting Maintenance for me and a sepia photograph of Ma’s 1941 wedding in Singapore wherein dad wore the Argyll & Sutherland Highlander’s uniform. There was their marriage certificate; Ma’s death certificate and a card to claim his war service medals.


It was my wife Nenagh who decided to delve...

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