How many ways are there to leave a lover? The answer is surely far, far fewer than there are ways to recover. Like most lovers left, Tanya Thistleton's characters refuse the victims cloak, accept the travails of change and in the end find salvation. Some, just some, even sup on cold revenge. There are other vignette pieces here too, of the lawyer and virginity and, of course, a dragon.

Published by CUSTOM BOOK PUBLICATIONS Taking two steps at a time Fozzy hummed to himself, pushing the bedroom door open with his left elbow before stopping dead in his tracks. He could not believe his eyes. Fred, as far as he was concerned was not a pretty sight in khaki work shorts, but his hairy arse moving up and down on his wife's body was even worse. Champagne bottle and glasses hit the tiled floor and the expensive liquid splashed everywhere. Erupting like a fountain, it joined the millions of glass shrapnel skidding across the floor in front of their bed. 'Ahhhh ...' Melvin yelled,...

Published by CUSTOM BOOK PUBLICATIONS . . . Of course she can survive without him ... or can she? Sarah injected authority into her voice as she told the Judge why her case was superior, and she should win. But it would be to no avail. Of all the barristers to oppose her, only Markus could leave her with every ounce of confidence gone... and every single nerve end tingling. That morning, all her efforts to eliminate the ravishingly handsome face from her mind came to nothing the moment he sat at the bar table. After mysteriously vanishing from the legal world for two years, he had simply...