RELATIVE PERIL
Some stories involve various family members at the same time, held for whatever reason...
Two weeks after they were held hostage, John is given the oppotunity to play some games with his mother and sister - will it bring them closer together?
Veronika had not seen her cousins for years - but this was not how she envisaged their time together?
A sweet tale of an afternoon discussing likes and dislikes...
That's Laura Mischief, a character of Arsene Daubrecq who loves her work...
A nice quiet weekend - in many ways...
Our Couple of Home Invasion give a mother and daughter a weekend to remember...
They had planned a quiet time at home - well, it was somewhat quiet...
It's two in the morning, and Olive can't sleep. Is it something to do with the surprise visitors she and her daughter have?
Mark's mother has a secret - and when Tony and Jessica visit him and Sam, he's determined to find it out...
As she waits for her daughter and her news, she has unexpected visitors - and a nightmare begins...
Ajitha had planned a quiet visit to her sister - but she has a shock in store...
Sisters tend to grow up alike, and then take different directions suddenly. An adoring aunt knows this is true of her nieces - so when both decide to call during a robbery, the differences and similarities are highlighted.
They wanted to keep their sisters quiet - but the arrival of two strangers changed that.
When Mark and Kristen's mother is called away on a Saturday on business, Kristen takes the opportunity to make Mark an offer he will not refuse.
Fashion today is a strange mishmash of eighties throwbacks mixed with clothes and/or boots with big buttons and bows. As this tale illustrates, families tend to dress similarly - and get bound similarly. I also answer the question - what if the person being bound is wearing those corduory boots with buttons?
Lesley is now at college, but still visits her sister Josie regularly for fun and games. When some friends invite her one day to a Saturday job, she finds a promising new career that she feels well suited for...
Tales of how Grans cope with unexpected guests...
When Chrystine called on her daughter, she discovered they had other visitors...
A tale of a robbery in the Seventies...
the two men were well dressed, well mannered - but determined to ensure they were left unencumbered to do their job...
It's Open Day at St Blazius - but for three families, the nickname Crime School will rear it's head again......
After the events of Not Another Saturday, Mark and his family try some role play to see if they have dealt with the trauma - and discover new things about themselves...
When her home is robbed, Harriet can only watch......
Wendy had been careful to make sure she was the only one home......
For Rene and her daughter Layla, Seattle was a nice, safe place to visit, even if the man of the house was away. A pty they did not knwo about Miss Grey and her men...
Gina had seen the advert - make good money by posing for photo shoots - and had agreed to meet the men involved. Sadly for her, her sister and her niece, they had other motives for visiting...
Peg and Bobbi are known to their staff as Leather and Lace - but to the ruthless intruders they discover in their home, they are the key to a night of fear and terror. A story for Xeen, my German friend.
Our specialist therapist helps some families to come to terms with what happened to them...
Family Counselling - Home Visits
Now that the lockdown has eased a little, our specilist is ont he road...
As Tamara greets her daughter in her house, she is unaware of the robbery and fire at a nearby factory - an event that will, over the course of the night, lead to all her daughters and granddaughters been taken hostage, and facing the differences between them. A request from Thefinal Lover.
Why have they been kidnapped? What is the ransom? And will their modesty stay intact...
Every family has their secrets, the stories of things that seem to only happen to them - but for this young woman, when sh eis bound and gagged in a robbery she discovers her family has been more - unlucky than most. There are embedded links to pictures that inspired this tale.
Meet the Fox - she loves to strengthen family ties...
Young Bobbi has moved to the city to study, and her mom and sister have come to visit - but all three are about to become rather constrained.
A birthday meal interrupted...
They had no idea what was going to happen...
Three generations of a Japanese family get a surprise visitor...
As her family gathers, the matriach finds history repeating itself...
Generations - Through the Years
Tales from decades past of robberies involving the same family.
Three generations, four women, one link....
Harper's Store - In The Beginning
A family gathering to celebrate the annivrsary of their business leads to a secret revealed....
Who would have thought that an afternoon riding would have ended with Jocelyn and Helena been taken hostage by an escaped prisoner? Forced to take him home, they had no idea how their night would end...
It was a stupid bet they made - see who could pick up the hottest guy that night. If she won, her mother stopped taking her clothes. If her mum won, she carried on. The men they picked up, however, had a different way of settling the issue.
A few weeks after Teddy stayed, and they played a tie-up game, John, his mother and sister are visited by three unwanted guests, and spend a day in terror and discovery.
They had been a couple for so many years - and then an intruder makes them both remember their first time together...
Twins share everything - including secrets and ways of communicating only they know. That proves very useful when they are bound, gagged and in theory unable to talk to each other or raise the alarm. In theory...
Mark and Sam head for Los Angeles for the weekend, to enjoy their prize - and meet some new friends...
A simple tale of a mother, a daughter - and two intruders...
What happens behind closed doors...
A week of short stories...
An isolated cottage, two sisters, and an October evening...
What happens when the servanys are not what they seem...
A birthday party for one of three sisters - interrupted by two intruders when they get home....
The morning after he had played the games with his mother, Mark had woken up bound and gagged on his bed. This is the story of what happened next...
After the three female criminals had left them, Mark had become something of a celebrity at school - but one girl in particular becomes more than just a friend...
A family have an unexpected caller - Laura Mischief...
Following on from the events described in Office Politics and Replaced, Madame X sends her top enforcer, Dominique, to visit the wife and daughter of George Kavanagh to 'flush him out'. The visit prove illuminating, in more ways than one...
There is a story behind this tale - two actually. One will appear in the "Multiple Maidens" section in the near future. The other is the fact I wrote this after my first Yahoo group was deleted - so some anger may have possibly come out in it...
Mark had already had a special day with his sister - and now it was his mother's turn...
When Mark came home with his mother and sister, the last thing any of them expected was two escaped prisoners in the house - and what happened to them afterwards...
they were meeting friends for lunch, and then the day took a very different turn with their duaghters....
They found the clipping, and thought they had stumbled on a fortune. What they found instead was five women, a rather unusual hostage situation, and a sting in the tale....
Janet's babysitting job was going well until her charges suggested a game of 'Cops and Robbers' - and she found herself well secured. When her mother arrived, she soon joined the game. When the two masked men came in, however, it was no longer a game....
Sandra was expecting her sister for coffee - not a home invasion....
It was a plan the four had executed many times before, and were very good at. So, for Harriet and her daughter Jessie it was a day they never expected. Unfortunately for the four, things took an unexpected turn for them as well...
They were meant to be going to the Open Day at Newcastle University - but then the Selfie Snatcher called...
A lesson for a mum an ddaughter in enjoyment...
Doorstep evangelists are an annoyance to many people. For this mother and daughter, they were more than that...
John and his cousin Teddy are facing the ultimate horror - a shopping trip with their mothers. Fortunately, the promised rewards more than make up for it...
John is having a birthday party - to which his cousin Teddy and his Aunt Lucy are invited. The theme is superheroes and supervillains - and the games are more fun later...
After you've got rid of a loser of a husband, it helps if you spend time with your daughter and try to heal the wounds. That was Hattie's plan for Grace - but the two smartly dressed men who hijack their car and them change their plans somewhat...
It was meant to be a double birthday celebration - but when the intruder surprised them, it brought back memories long surpressed, and the two have to deal with both them and their current situation.
Why are so many families been visited by two tricksters?
The duties of the Chief Bridesmaid or Maid of Honour are clear - assist and help the bride before and on the big day. They do not normally include helping to tie her up during a robbery...
He was soft spoken, calm - and made sure she and her daughter were tightly secured...
It was meant to be a meal out for the family, to celebrate a birthday - but the two intruders had other plans...
Fantasy Fulfillment are back in business...
She had been caring ofr her sister ever since the incident - but an intruder makes a breakthrough...
Or the story of how Jay Edwards and Mrs MacKay started...
Her mother had come to support her on her first shoot - and as a result, they found a new bond...
That was Then, This is Now - Don't Be Afraid
The last thing she wanted was her granddaughter to make herself sick - so she shared a story...
That was Then, This is Now - Hippie Chix
She and her grandmother shared a free spirit - and an experience...
She likes to play games...
Mark and his mother take a week's vacation up near the Great Lakes - and enjoy some game playing...
The Domino Theory - Setting the Pieces
A series of seemingly unrelated kidnappings - but as the events unfold, something bigger is being planned - something involving an extended family...
The Domino Theory - Knocking Them Down
Four daughters, two mothers and an aunt - but what is the real prize, and who is making the pattern...
The three stocking masked women took Mark, Kristen and their mum by surprise - but for Mark in particular, the night would prove very different...
They were treated to an ocean view they could not stop watching...
Some time after other adventures, Lucinda tells her friend Tara of an experience she and her mother had with some family friends on the South of France, when some escaped convicts dropped in unexpectedly...
A gentle tribute to the man known as Wwwarmachine...
One way to have a party with friends...
the last thing they expected after Brunch was to be kidnapped...
Mother and Daughter, self styled "sex education" gurus - and about to learn the error of their ways...
Their cleaning business is failing - but a visit from The Voyeurs leads to an innovative solution...
It is extremly important that you stretch and properly warm down after an exercise session. For Jessie and her mother, this particular night the stretching will take an unexpected form...
When they forgot to brign their gift in at the start of the reception, it meant Janice and Bertha had to undergo something they did not expect...
The Holderness Shadow is well known to the Craig and Holderness family - so why is a woman in Maine dreaing of peril for both families, and of the Shadow - and why does this spell mortal danger? With many thanks to Skybird, this is the first part of a more adult story set in the timeline of An Education...
As the members of the Craig and Holderness family gather for a day out, dark forces are gathering, and Sara's personal secrets are revealed - but what is the connection she has to the Holderness name?
The situation is getting worse for the women at the Manor House, as Anne Duncombe and Sara come to the rescue - with a little help...
the explosive finale to the tale, as secrets are revealed, and Sara learns the truth of her ancestry...
They had just shown the photographer out when the two intruders struck - and one of them had an idea for how to pass the time once they were bound...
Escape challenges are a useful sideline in trying times...
She was looking forard to a quiet weekend with no surprises - she got half her wish...
Teri has invited her young assistant, who is wooing her, round for a Valentine's Day meal, while her daughter Geri is going on a blind date. Neither suspected the evening would end the way it did ...
A request story for Veronika Mueller, in which her plans for a quiet weekend at their cabin in the woods are rather spoilt by a chlorofrom soaked cloth, a devious kidnapper, and an invitation to her sister that he sent...
Lesley is visiting her sister, but she is still trying to recapture the feelings she had in The Awakening. When she discovers her sister's secret store, however, she finds she has someone to talk to - and show her new ways to learn..
A short story telling what happens when a woman is attacked as her sister walks into the house...
It gets cold on the Swedish coast, but for one mother and daughter even wearing scarves to bed cannot stop the chill two late night visitors bring...
Two sisters are surprised by intruders, and end up able to do little more than wriggle round...
Celestee needs a job, so she agress to help out her grandmother in her new anitque shop. When she collects a parcel that she was not intended to get, two men come to collect - and her gran teaches her a lesson about coping....