The next short story, Our Little Secret is an internal duologue featuring the schizophrenic, Polly Stanmore who is waiting on the platform of a London underground station. Peace and Goodwill is about two very different couples trying to do their Christmas shopping in Hereford. Harry Manning is a member of the SAS. Don Pickering is a member of the underclass. The couple's paths cross harmlessly early in the evening but later on they come together with fatal consequences.
The Dreamer is about a dream of gentleman John Patrick Murphy. A Very Special Delivery involves Arthur and Florence Watkins waking up one fine morning to find a cardboard box sitting in the centre of their living room. Is the big box there for good or ill? The next piece, Magical Banality, is a brief load of nonsense. Bestseller is about the delusional novel writing ambitions of an obnoxious misanthropic foul-mouthed law student, Donald Ferguson.
A Little Mancunian Love Story is about a couple of eighteen year olds who meet in a central Manchester pub and deceive each other with white lies. They part company after their lunchtime drinks and, during a thunder storm, they fall in temporary love. Jimmy, who is out of work, samples some of Manchesterís culture while Hazel, a lowly civil servant, navigates a boring afternoon in the office. The pair's mutual deceit, however, is eventually revealed at the end of the day.
The Suicide Note features novelist Rick Firestone who will stop at nothing in order to get published. He uses a very extreme marketing plan. But where is he speaking from? Will you help to save him? The next piece, A Labour of Love and Stupidity is just that. You will either love or hate this exercise in brief and intelligent repetition.
Isaac Rutherford narrates the next story, The Rutherford Protocols which is about the very complex relationship with his dangerous and elusive friends. It is a story about undiagnosed madness. The final protocol, number XXI reads: "You must always completely deny the existence of all the Isaac Rutherford Protocols."
The final story, Danny Cameron is about a teenage pop out for a training run with his steely former SAS bodyguards who are trying to toughen him up. The prose poem entitled The Female Collage is a man's speculation about how some women might collect their memories of the men they have met or connected with in some way. The final poem, Looking Down on a Dark Marylebone is a nocturnal description of central London.
