Contents
1 Not a Dog, Not a Cat
2 Amazing Grace
3 When Max Met Lola
4 Through the Night
5 From Where, From What
6 First Date
7 So Far, So Soon
8 Razor Blades
9 Flashes, Flutters, Expectations
10 Frank Sinatra, Doris Day
11 Blighter’s Rock No
12 When Claude Met Lula Mae
13 When Max’s Mind Met Lula Mae
14 Research
15 The Scent of Lula Mae Flowers
16 Doing Their Ching
17 How It Was
18 The Worst That Could Happen
19 A Short Time With Basil
20 Girl Talk
21 Moe Levy’s Burden
22 Further Research
23 Freying Now?
24 Girl Talk 2
25 Boy Talk
26 Two Little Words
27 Ursa Major, Lesser Minor
28 Overload
29 The Mountains of Ararat
30 Phone Talk
31 Lola Lola
32 Earth Work
33 Victorian Attitudes
34 Levy Unburdened
35 Last Orders
36 Forgetfulness Remembered
37 Monstrous Virtue
38 A Whole New Ball Game
39 The Big Store
40 Noah?
41 No Answer
42 Every Hour
43 After the Flood
44 Synchronicity
45 Not a Retreat
46 Making It Dark
47 Form and Emptiness
48 Not So Fast
49 Frog Hollow Road
50 The New Rucksack
51 Joie de Vivre
52 More Dark Than Light
53 Absent Friend
54 Prickles of Memory
55 The Vessel Only
56 The Enormity
57 Kirsty’s Fetch
58 Boilermakers No
59 The Rainbow Sign
60 Well, Really, What?
61 Victor’s First Word
62 River in the Mind
63 Another Time With Basil
64 A Far, Far Better Fantasy
65 A Little Bit of No Luck
66 Ark of Mystery
67 Penelope’s Web
68 Lolanesses
69 ‘Smriti’
70 What Searching Eyes
71 Destiny’s Dentist
72 Philip Nolan Lesser
73 Her Name Was What?
74 Whatever
75 Thank You, God!
Acknowledgments
A Note on the Author
By the Same Author