Games People Play
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Role playing is a useful tool; it can help unlock the secrets of a disturbed mind or spice up a couple's love life. It can also get out of hand...
Story 1: Nights Alone with Garbo
There are some games you just shouldn’t play and adultery is one of them. Lust and greed make for volatile bedfellows and things can easily get out of hand . . .
Story 2: Emily on the Edge
A psychiatrist puts his own sanity on the line when he resorts to role-playing, in a desperate attempt to uncover the mysterious forces that lie behind a patient’s multiple personalities.
Chris Niblock
Chris Niblock was born in London, but now lives in Shropshire. He has published three novels. His latest,' A Stirring in the Blood' is his first excursion into crime fiction, and introduces detective sergeant, Glyn Tudor. Chris is also an artist and amateur musician and regularly sings and plays guitar in his local café bar. You can read his blog and view a selection of Chris’s artwork on his website at www.chrisniblock.com
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Games People Play - Chris Niblock
GAMES PEOPLE PLAY
TWO SHORT STORIES
BY
CHRIS NIBLOCK
Copyright 2012 Chris Niblock
Published by Focalpoint at Smashwords
Copyright © Chris Niblock 2012
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Dead, is purely coincidental.
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Contents
1: Nights Alone with Garbo
2: Emily on the Edge
1: Nights Alone with Garbo
There is a certain time of night; a lonely hour when time itself seems suspended and an eerie stillness descends on deserted streets. With it comes a rare moment of silence. A silence so profound that it’s almost a physical thing; a Berlin Wall cutting you off from the rest of your kind, as they lie snug and warm behind the curtains of their darkened bedrooms.
It was that time of night for me, and it was that kind of job – a routine matrimonial case. The usual story: an errant husband, a suspicious wife. That’s where I come in, or somebody like me; an insomniac prepared to sit out the wee small hours in a cramped, uncomfortable car. Just sit and watch and wait for something to happen. In three long hours nothing had moved out there – not even a stray cat