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Clipped Wings

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From Whispers 5. Not credited, but this is very similar to other R.T. Mason stories. Edward had told her before to be more careful about her parking because she had had a couple of near misses. But as usual there were several things in her mind at once and her proximity to the next car was perhaps not paramount. As she backed there was a jolting crunch. Swallowing, she went forward again and then back at a snail’s pace this time. And then feeling sick got out to look at the damage. It was only then that she realised it was the Head’s car. Sarah’s stomach turned over as she took in the state of the wing, the headlamp. They had only been there a week. St Luke’s School, a minor boys’ public school, where Sarah’s husband Edward had been appointed Housemaster and history teacher. It was a very good appointment, after one year in the hell of a state comprehensive, and naturally he was very anxious to do well — as of course was Sarah. And now she had wrecked the Headmaster’s car! She st

Video Lessons

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Lovely story from Uniform Girls 38 illustrated with an equally lovely model. Although the picture set has been recycled from the In a Gentleman's Employ series, it fits this story very nicely indeed. The TV screen is blank as the video begins to roll. Just the fuzzy, flickering grey light. Then abruptly it starts, shaking a bit, a hand-held camera, and slightly out of focus, but it quickly adjusts. To show a close-up of a bed. And a girl’s head, her face, framed by fluffed-up pillow and duvet. The pillow and duvet are in a pretty pink-and-white flowered pattern, bright and cheerful, as in a teenage girl’s room perhaps. The girl’s face is turned to the camera and she is awake, wide-awake. A pretty, rounded face beneath somewhat disordered short, auburn-brown hair. Her full mouth with its ripe pink lips is slightly parted and the big brown eyes are wide. With fear? Anticipation of something frightening she can see? There is only this close-up of the face, it is not possible for the