Stories by M T Sands
Ten Naughty Stories – Introducing the world of MT Sands
Is it acceptable to have sex when your husband can’t watch? When does neighbourly affection go too far? No matter how charming you are, do you think you can get away with anything? What would you do if you see a monster in the ring? If you are always waiting for the right one, will you wait for ever or sacrifice yourself on the altar of never? Can you keep your dignity when things get out of hand? Is your father always right? Beg, borrow or steal, is it worth it for a deal? When revenge is a dish, is it best served hot or cold? Are you really good at what you do best, or is it time to admit you should be told? – Be wary of those who are led by their stomach… The unexpected, the cruel, the frightening and the absurd, M.T. Sands teases and delights with Ten Naughty Stories that makes us reconsider our human foibles and frailties.
The Sandpaper Affair – Ten Naughty Cricket Stories
Is it acceptable to run out a team-mate? Should you bet on your Captain’s downfall? Would you tamper with a cricket ball to gain an edge? Do you think girls can bat, or would you send down your fastest ball? Have you ever dreamed of hitting the winning run only to have your bails removed and your stumps flattened? Are you a pie chucker, or a natural tail-ender? Are you superstitious? Do you believe in the power of a mystical bat, or essential piece of kit? What would you do if a cricket ball kept landing in your greenhouse? Or someone messed with your box? M.T. Sands teases and delights with Ten Naughty Cricket Stories that echo with summer laughter and the sound of leather on willow.
Bad Santa – Ten Naughty Christmas Stories
M T Sands spends Christmas with her boyfriend, Naim a.k.a. the Sheik. Naim does not celebrate Christmas officially, but he does enjoy the fancy dress, the Santa costumes and the strategic positioning of mistletoe. As for herself, Mary has several festive traditions which she always carries out – sometimes in secret. Every year she dresses as Santa and travels to local villages leaving random offerings on people’s doorsteps. This year, for example, she gave jars of honeycomb made from her bees, specially labelled with her North Pole logo. The Sheik will sometimes play along by dressing in an elf outfit and watching the polar express. None of this I hasten to add has been captured on camera or posted on Social Media. Her exploits have reawakened some locals’ belief in the existence of Santa, good or bad. Although, as one mother exclaimed, rather rudely, how could the real Santa give a gift quite so sticky?
Carte Blanche – The Naughty Stories Series
How will Kateryna woo Shevshenko? Will the Count elude confession on his death bed? Can a true Scot really appreciate a holiday in the Med? How will you grow old? Gracefully or with a bottle in your hands? Are you a Naughty Girl or Nice Girl? Have you ever encountered your double? Can you read the cards, or do you stick to the runes?
Carte Blanche is a collection of naughty short stories, a series of sly vignettes and comic tableaux, compiled and curated by best of friends, Maude and Mabel. Why not become a member of the lazy book club, and get your news from nowhere? Carte Blanche is the indulgent companion for idle days by the pool, the longeurs of the airport lounge and the post-industrial metro of the modern world.– M T Sands
Carte Rouge – The Naughty Stories Series
How will Harry the painter escape from the bikers? Who is the mysterious hitcher in the frozen Canadian winter? Will the brat Kevin get his comeuppance? And will Anouk and Hans get away with swimming in the wild? Are you a sheep or a wolf in sheep’s clothing? Do you like whips or quips? Do you soak it up, or dare you take it like a man? Or indeed a nun?.
Carte Rouge is a collection of naughty, short stories, a series of sly vignettes and comic tableaux, compiled and curated by new best friends, George and Giorgio. For all members of the lazy book club, Carte Rouge is the indulgent companion for idle days by the pool, the longeurs of the airport lounge and the post-industrial metro of the modern world. – M T Sands
The Felucca Ride
From Vegas, gangsters, playboys and loan sharks, to Cairo, bi-planes and motorbikes, do you choose a smooth Egyptian gent, or a New Jersey self-made skunk? What other unenviable choices lie before grifter, Felicia “Cleo” Portman as she heads down the Felucca Ride in search of fame, fortune, and a Bastet cat. “Another story from the MT Sands stable that teases and delights,” J. P.
Stories by Sedley Proctor
The Half Days – Sex and Death in Southern Italy
Young English teacher Julia arrives in a vibrant Southern Italian city where she takes up with happy-go-lucky street seller, Cofi. When Cofi is caught up in a smuggling ring, the question of her own future arises. But as the half days stretch into the summer nights, the future is forgotten in a round of carnival pleasures.
Accidental Death of a Terrorist – Crime Passionel in Southern Italy
“We survive in the confusion of a life reborn beyond reason.” – Pier Paolo Pasolini
What reasons can there be beyond the reasons of love? Now married to successful businessman, Achille Lombardo, Julia appears to have it all until her she embarks on an ill-fated affair with Arturo, and her ex-pat adventure morphs into the crime of passion. The second part of the Mezzogiorno Trilogy, Accidental Death of a Terrorist tells the story of Julia and Arturo’s forbidden affair as it becomes entwined with the fate of Marco, a naïve Arab medical student they have befriended. Told as a series of flashbacks and vignettes, the novel opens up the shutter on the hidden world of passion and deceit that lurks in the sleepy towns of Southern Italy, and begs the question: can love triumph over circumstance?
The Junk Book – of Jimmy Quentin, poet maudit
Inside the drowned man, Hobbes found the whale. Inside the whale, Hobbes found nothing but junk. Was it the junk that made him creep? Or something itching at his soul? No matter, there was no solution other than to trigger the gun. – On the brink of fame and fortune, Jimmy Quentin, poet maudit of the Q-tips, leaves it all behind and takes to the streets where his life continues to spiral out of control.
“I have waited decades for The Junk Book to arrive. The scraps and fictions and fungi of a deranged mind. Read at your peril. You will lose yourself in its bizarre and wondrous pages.” – Maldoror
Curses! – Tales of Nightmare and Revenge
Any expressed wish that some form of adversity or misfortune will befall or attach to one or more persons, place, or object is called a curse! Also called an imprecation, malediction, execration, malison, anathema, or commination, in particular “curse” may refer to such a wish or pronouncement called into being by a supernatural or spiritual power, such as a god or gods, a spirit or a natural force, or else as a kind of spell by magic or witchcraft; in the latter sense, a curse can also be called a hex or a jinx.
“Read this book at your peril. The numinous, the humorous and the unexpected converge in these tales of nightmare and revenge.” – M T Sands
Stories by F M Frites
The Wolf Garden – Bodacious Adventure with Unicorns and Gnomes
In fact – a Totally, Completely, and Utterly Bodacious Adventure with Unicorns and Gnomes!
Dreamy tomboy, Laila meets Cyril, a rebellious gnome and passes through a charmed gate into the Wolf Garden. Here, she does battle with the shape-shifter Smarm and his army of wolves. When Smarm captures her gnome friends and steals the magic strawbs, Laila and Cyril help the Mistress Dido win them back.