Room 2D

Here is an enhanced version of the Guardians Club story Gentlemen at Pleasure from Blushes 21. I had to give up on one picture in this set as I couldn’t get it to be anything but weird. ‘It was on the train down to Truro, a lovely run as you know on a nice day and this was a real beauty, blue skies all the way. Anyway as it happened I was travelling second class, don’t know why, I rarely do, but if I  hadn’t …’ ‘George!’ said Max sharply. George stopped, eyes querying. ‘You’re going on a bit, George. Could you come to the point?’ ‘Sorry,’ said George who knew he did go on a bit at times. ‘Well, it was the girl of course.’ At the word ‘girl’ the others immediately gave their full attention, because girls were a major interest of this little group assembled. An all-consuming, all-embracing interest it would not be too much to say. Young and softly nubile ones. Budding. George notwithstanding his rambling conversational ma...

From Fessée 4, featuring Minnie Champ The giggles are the same; the dialogue uncannily familiar. Even the vices are unchanged: cans of beer and cigarettes consumed over an endless stream of girlish bitchery. Hard to believe that six years have elapsed since their last heart-to-heart. There’s a lot to catch up on. ‘So, is Colin still in publishing?’ asks Nella, deliberately getting the name wrong. Magda giggles. ‘Yes. He’s doing poetry these days. Callum couldn’t tell a rhyming couplet from an iambic pentameter if his life depended on it, but most people can’t and so he gets away with it.’ ‘No regrets about marrying him?’ ‘Not really: he’s as good as most men and earns enough for his defects to be overlooked. I could’ve done worse.’ Their eyes meet at the unspoken rider. ‘and nearly did — several times!’ Nella doesn’t blame her friend for marrying Callum, but she does resent the way Magda capitulated so easily to his demand...