The Butcher and the Ice Cream

The third and last collection of stories in the series Sauntering through the Humanscape.

The Extraordinary Demise of the Famous Armless Juggler: Carlos recovers from a life changing accident to become the most famous juggler in the world.

A bowl of mysterious oils and petals from the religious hibiscus help him along the way.

But, his catastrophic one-sided love for a nubile young woman brings him down to earth and beyond.

The Apricot Ice Cream and the Butcher’s Apprentice:

Can a dapper little man get an ice cream from a butcher’s shop or a lamb chop from an ice cream parlour?

Can an undervalued apprentice save the day?

Will Big John McNabb live happily ever after?

Lake Deception:

A narcissistic philanderer gets his comeuppance. Is this the perfect murder?

Glass Angel:

Infatuation, communion wine, sardines and lust bring a strange boy into the world. After lost years a stripper with her clothes on brings a fiery gathering together with dark and terrible consequences.

Rain: It started raining in the late afternoon and came down in sheets all night. The outcome is sunlight and a beautiful awakening.

Two flash fiction stories:

Coffee Break:

A lesson in what might happen if you interrupt some ones quite coffee break with prattle.

Jasmin’s Ears:

Stuck indoors because of the weather when he should have been out flirting with Jasmin, a young man with a grandfather’s vocabulary daydreams about many things including Jasmin’s ears.