The Butcher and the Ice Cream

And other stories (Sauntering Through the Humanscape)

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.

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