The Library

Tapping

Mark and his dad are already drifting apart when the situation is made worse. His dad announces that they are moving a couple of hundred miles from their city home. Mark, not wanting to leave behind his best friend and familiar surroundings, tries unsuccessfully to sabotage the move. After moving into a large Victorian house in the Northumberland country side Mark begins to hear inexplicable tappings on his bedroom window. Do his new neighbours, and especially the attractive but slightly weird Tom, hold the key which might help Mark to unlock the secrets of the old house?

2005

Tough Question

'Do you love me?' - Superficially that may seem like a simple and relatively innocuous question. When Ian is fourteen love seems mysterious, but not too complex and when he is sixteen and encounters that question for the first time the answer seems blindingly obvious. As the years pass by he progresses from being a schoolboy to being a university graduate and that question arises again and again. Each time the answer becomes more and more difficult, and the answers he gives create more and more complications. Eventually, he's not so sure about love any more and he grows to realise that 'Do you love me?' can be a really tough question.

2008

Perspective

Adam remembers the the experiences, both good and bad, that he shared with his brother, Brian, during their troubled childhood. Some of his childhood memories are still crystal clear but others, like islands in a misty sea, had become hazy with distance and distorted by the fog of emotion. Events which had seemed significant to him might have been trivial to others, and even a brother who experienced the same childhood events would have his memories coloured by his own subjective viewpoint. Despite that, perhaps Brian can help Adam to get some perspective on his past.

2008

The Road Not Taken

Steve is a very successful businessman in his thirties when a phone call from his estranged father informs him that his beloved grandmother has died. The weekend on which he goes back to his home town for the funeral coincides with a class reunion in his old school. With nothing better to do on the long boring weekend, Steve decides to go to his first ever reunion, thinking that at least it will give him the chance to show how superior he is to his old classmates.

2006

Just Visiting

It's Terry's first day at University and he's persuaded to go for a free lunch at the Catholic Chaplaincy. While eating as quickly as possible so that he can make a rapid exit, he sees Andrew, very ordinary looking young man who appears to be a member of what Terry thinks of as the 'God Squad'. At first Terry is completely uninterested, but then Andrew smiles, and although the smile isn't directed at him, Terry's heart is lost. How far is Terry prepared to go in order to try to get acquainted with Andrew, and even if he succeeds what chance is there that a member of the 'God Squad' can share his feelings? Maybe the lunch won't be so free after all, and maybe the price will be a broken heart.

2006

Timing

John has just graduated from university, he's got a little financial independence and he has a boyfriend. He decides that maybe this is a good time to tell his parents that he's gay. So he arranges to go back to his home town and spend a long weekend with his family, thereby giving himself a few days in which to pick just the right time to make his announcement. However, things don't go exactly to plan.

2006

Just Two More Days

James makes a new contact, Harry, on a gay dating site, and eventually they decide to meet. However, before getting involved in any relationship, perhaps James ought to ask himself some questions, such as: How well do you know the person you're falling in love with, and if you get to know them really, really well, will you love them more or less?

2008