Camberley Stories

"It's just like the multinational pharmaceutical businesses deliberately designing toothpaste tubes so that you cannot squeeze out the last bit of toothpaste,"...

"I don't wanna go," I was shouting as I struggled to hang on to the car door for dear life. I was being kidnapped and forced into a vehicle outside my home tha...

"How often do you wash your face?" asked the doctor. "Like how?" I responded, uncertain about what he was enquiring. "You know, with soap and wa...

A schoolboy babysitting two infant-school-age girls at night? Quick, call the police! Notify child protection services! ... But wait! This was the 1970's. That boy was f...

"Gimme your money!" he shouted, pointing a pistol at me. He had jumped out from behind some bushes. It was a dark winter evening. I was alone. Nobody was about...

The couple put the huge dog in the back of their car and, before setting off down our driveway, smiled and waved at us. We did not smile. We did not wave back. My mother...

It was a mystery. Questions were asked. Answers were not forthcoming. Nobody could understand what had happened. Evidently something must have occurred. But what? And ho...

There was a loud knock on the front door. Who could be visiting unannounced after dark? Certainly not Mr Dickinson from 'The Pru' who always called during daylight hours...

"Each of you will subscribe to 'The Times' newspaper and read it every day," Mr Hodges told us. "In class, we will discuss one of its news stories about e...

It was the summer of rock'n'roll. Bill Haley. Buddy Holly. Chuck Berry. Fats Domino. The Big Bopper. Now, every time I hear one of their songs, I am reminded of a summer...

"Why are you choosing a university so far away?" aunt Sheila demanded of me. "You should commute from home to Guildford so you can help your mum." I...

Ben Bruce comes into Adira Bruce's life once again seeing how destructive his leave left her in. can they fix their brother sister relationship? Adira has a lot of hate...

It was the summer of '69. My father had insisted I accompany him to his meeting. He had driven us to a wooden gateway on the south side of Lightwater Road that led into...

Kapow! There was an explosion. Before I even grasped what had just happened, I could see I was covered with shards of glass. What was that noise? The train window I was...

"Grant, why haven't you written anything? What did you do yesterday evening?" Our teacher had walked along the row of desks in the classroom and noticed that I...