A Twist in the Tale

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Of these twelve short stories, gathered in my travels from Tokyo to Trumpington, ten are based on known incidents — some embellished with considerable license. Only two are totally the result of my own imagination.

I would like to thank all those people who allowed me to learn some of their innermost secrets.

J. A.

September 1988

If i hadn’t changed my mind that night I would never have found out the truth.

I couldn’t believe that Carla had slept with another man, that she had lied about her love for me — and that I might be second or even third in her estimation.

Carla had phoned me at the office during the day, something I had told her not to do, but since I also warned her never to call me at home she hadn’t been left with a lot of choice. As it turned out, all she had wanted to let me know was that she wouldn’t be able to make it for what the French so decorously call a ‘cinq à sept.’ She had to visit her sister in Fulham who had been taken ill, she explained.

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