Michael Graeme - Free Library Land Online

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A story of unrequited love, of unexpected love, of love lost, and found again. With divorce and redundancy looming, our hero, Tom, is left facing middle age with the feeling that he made a wrong turn somewhere in his past. Then, as if things aren't bad enough he's inexplicably haunted by memories of Rachel, a girl he had a crush on at school. With emotions bubbling up to the surface he realises the old business with Rachel has never really been forgotten and that before he can find a way through his crisis, he's going to have to journey back in search of his deepest past. Tom sets out to find Rachel and, regardless of her circumstances, do the one thing he couldn't bring himself to do a quarter of a century ago: ask her on a date. But things don't quite go according to plan. Tom discovers a lot can change in twenty five years, but that some things remain exactly the same. And when it comes to the business of unrequited love, even those closest to him are not immune. This is a full length novel - complete and free to read. It is not a teaser or a taster.]]> Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:46:56 +0200 The Summer of '83 https://crime.library.land/michael-graeme/365903-the_summer_of_83.html https://crime.library.land/michael-graeme/365903-the_summer_of_83.html

Well, that's middle age for you: you either grow up, grow into it, accept its imperfections, its disappointments, and grow old grumbling at someone, or you ruin yourself on a mad fling with a girl half your age that you know won't last, and then you grow old alone and with only the walls to grumble at. In the absence of any other alternatives, I know which of the two I prefer,... but what if there was a third alternative?]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:46:54 +0200 Rosemary's Eyes https://crime.library.land/michael-graeme/365905-rosemarys_eyes.html https://crime.library.land/michael-graeme/365905-rosemarys_eyes.html

A short story about life, and death: Rosemary was by the house, feeling her way among the delicate stems of a clematis, her light touch seeking the beauty of its tissue-thin blooms. She paused at our approach and looked towards me, her eyes passive, waiting. Then she reached out, inviting my embrace. And when she gathered me in her arms, she raised her lips to my ear and I felt her whispered words, hot and curling against my skin. "Don't be afraid," she said. "Look into my eyes once more."]]> Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:46:55 +0200 In Durleston Wood https://crime.library.land/michael-graeme/365902-in_durleston_wood.html https://crime.library.land/michael-graeme/365902-in_durleston_wood.html

A middle aged romantic, Richard Hunter has hit the buffers. Divorced and estranged from his children, he trains as a teacher and takes up a post in his home village at his old Primary School. Never more than arm's length away from a nervous breakdown and hopelessly in love with his headmistress, Richard seeks solace in his boyhood haunt: Durleston Wood. But the wood now hides a secret, a mysterious woman kept hidden there as the apparent "property" of a villain - or so she tells him. As he learns more of her fate, and her plan to transfer her "ownership" to him, he tells himself this is the last thing he wants, while wondering if it isn't actually something he needs more than anything, that far from destroying him, rescuing her could be the one thing that stops him from going under. This is a full length novel - not a taster or a teaser.]]> Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:46:53 +0200 Love is a Perfect Place https://crime.library.land/michael-graeme/365907-love_is_a_perfect_place.html https://crime.library.land/michael-graeme/365907-love_is_a_perfect_place.html

A short story by Michael Graeme - a twenty minute read: He scooped some water up and drank. It astonished him. It tasted like he imagined the most perfect water should taste, but it was a sensation spoiled by the queer fact that he wasn't thirsty even though he had walked for hours under a hot sun. "Perhaps we don't need food,... or water," he said. "Only when it pleases us." He looked around then at the land and he felt a chill. What manner of place was this? And what manner of being had he become?]]> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 22:46:57 +0200 The Man Who Could Not Forget https://crime.library.land/michael-graeme/365904-the_man_who_could_not_forget.html https://crime.library.land/michael-graeme/365904-the_man_who_could_not_forget.html

A Short Story by Michael Graeme (a fifteen minute read): ...I have a problem with my memory. It isn't that it ever fails me - quite the opposite in fact. Indeed, my recall of events from all but the earliest years of my life is truly photographic, so there was little doubt in my mind the woman before me now was the one who had stolen the book....]]> Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:46:54 +0200 Push Hands https://crime.library.land/michael-graeme/365901-push_hands.html https://crime.library.land/michael-graeme/365901-push_hands.html

Phil and Penny were made for each other - the only problem is they are married to other people. When they meet at a Tai Chi class they quickly realise the depth of one another's loneliness and need for a sympathetic ear. Fearful of the consequences, they go to elaborate lengths to avoid each other but their paths begin to cross with chance-defying regularity, pulling them ever more deeply into one another's confidence. Is this evidence of a mysterious power at work, or should they simply have an affair? Middle aged and married for a long time, their apparently unavoidable relationship causes them to ask serious questions of the meaning of their lives and their marriages, and finally to demand that their families respect them for who they really are. But will their families recognise them? Can they even recognise themselves? Push Hands is a full length novel, complete and free to download.]]> Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:46:53 +0200 Katie's Rescue https://crime.library.land/michael-graeme/365900-katies_rescue.html https://crime.library.land/michael-graeme/365900-katies_rescue.html

A thirty minute read: It felt odd, driving into Raworth, because where I come from Raworth does not exist. I know that stretch of road, you see? It dips down to the river Warfe, crosses over by the old bridge, then rises up the dale on the other side. Ordinarily there's just a steep wooded ravine and a picturesque waterfall on the river but, like I said, on this occasion, there was also Raworth,...]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:46:52 +0200 The Man Who Talked to Machines https://crime.library.land/michael-graeme/365908-the_man_who_talked_to_machines.html https://crime.library.land/michael-graeme/365908-the_man_who_talked_to_machines.html

A short story from web-author Michael Graeme (a half hour read): "You have to talk to them, counsel them, mesmerise them into stillness before you set foot anywhere near them. And, though I may not be considered wholly sane, at least I have a reputation for the way I talk to machines."]]> Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:46:58 +0200 Lively Custard https://crime.library.land/michael-graeme/365898-lively_custard.html https://crime.library.land/michael-graeme/365898-lively_custard.html

Short Story - a 25 minute read: Rogue trees are popping up all over the little town of Frinton-cum-Hardy and the residents have begun speaking in metaphors so mixed and mangled, poor Armitage, connoisseur of all things bookish, finds he no longer understands his mother tongue. And if all that isn't enough his young protege, Jenny, from the Books Galore Emporeum is having "uncle trouble"!]]> Tue, 23 Nov 2004 22:46:50 +0200 Escape From Paradise Island https://crime.library.land/michael-graeme/365899-escape_from_paradise_island.html https://crime.library.land/michael-graeme/365899-escape_from_paradise_island.html

A 25 minute read by Michael Graeme: Crime doesn't pay. That's what they try to teach you in prison, and fair enough, I might even have left there one day determined to go straight except, suddenly, I was on an island in the China Sea, gazing at a beautiful girl in a yellow Bikini. So maybe it had been worth it after all. But careful now! You had to avoid thinking things like that because they'd a nasty habit of dissolving back into reality and you'd wake up right back in that stinking grey cell: five years of your life already erased, with another two to go, and all because you'd never been able to resist the puzzle of a pretty motor car!]]> Fri, 23 Nov 2007 22:46:51 +0200