The Island: A SagaAn every day story of Island folkThe Island 20Things are hotting up for the summer season, and I can't find the time to write more episodes of The Island right now. The Island 19: A Late Night VisitorIt was gone 1l.30 pm by the time Jacqui Draper arrived at Jade Piggot’s flat in Binstead. With his belly full of pizza and beer Jacqui’s boyfriend Craig had gone all lovey-dovey on her and it had taken every ounce of thespian in her to persuade him that she had a headache. Eventually he dropped he...
The Island 18: A Chance EncounterJacqui Draper and Craig Wilmott sat opposite one another in Newport’s Pizza Hut. They had just seen A Woman in Black (or in Jacqui’s case some of it; she was a wimp about scary films and had spent a lot of this one with her face buried in Craig’s shoulder.) For a few moments they ate hungrily and ...
The island 17: Good Advice?The members of Camilla Pinkerton-Smythe’s bridge group had been as one and they had been adamant: she simply must report the broken drain-pipe to the police. The Island 16: Case 1 (Goldilocks)Trainee Detective Constable Driver sat at his desk in Newport’s police station patting a sheaf of papers together. Having got them neatly aligned, he placed them in a clear plastic folder which he had labelled Case 1(Goldilocks). Inside the folder there was a cardboard divider separating Case 1a f...
The Island 15: A burglar in Bluett Avenue?Jacqui Draper whisked her duster along the kitchen skirting boards. Her boss, Camilla Pinkerton-Smythe’s new habit of bringing her bridge club down to Seaview mid-week meant Jacqui’s job was becoming a bit more demanding. Gone were the days when she didn’t see the family from September til Easter...
The Island 14: the homecomingSally Thomas, dressed and ready to go home, sat on the hard chair beside her bed. Occasionally she looked rather longingly at the crisp, smooth sheets. She had been longing for this moment, she felt she had spent an eternity in hospital. But now she was up and dressed she was surprised by how exh...
The Island 13: The ConfessionJacqui Draper and Jade Piggot sat at the bar of the Black Sheep in Union Street, each nursing a large glass of white wine. The Island 12: The plot thickensDennis Corrs and Barry Jenks sat side by side on the plastic hospital chairs, clutching their coats on their laps. Dennis was trying not to look at the tea trolley which had come to rest at the foot of the bed opposite the one occupied by his friend Sally Thomas. He knew the tea was for the patie...
The Island: 11 The Mysterious Pair of PantsJade Piggott sat opposite Donna Couchewell, her coffee going cold as she listened, slack-jawed, to what her boss was saying. In her five years as a waitress at the Bien Venue Guest House, she had only once before been asked to sit down for a chat. That was last year when Donna offered her the job...
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