Weird & Wonderful Asian Stories

By Adam Mann

After working and living for over fifty years in Africa and Asia Adam Mann has put together some interesting stories about life. Here are sixteen tales, but watch out four are a bit naughty and really for adults only. The stories range from about 1970 in the North of Nigeria, to life in the Swat valley and poppy fields in the Indus basin. The author now lives peacefully in East Asia.

• Language: English
• Publisher: ButterflyBooks
• Release date: Jan 14, 2018
• ISBN: 9781370780181

Adam Mann

Adam Mann has lived and worked in Africa and then Asia for many years. He has always been fascinated by personal relationships, and in real life is now enjoying his fourth marriage, after being widowed, divorced, and even had a marriage annulled as this ‘wife’ had forgotten to get divorced.As a result he has extensive experience of social and sexual activities, which he brings into his books in explicit detail. Underlying all these activities is a quest for a loving and ongoing relationship with his partner.Adam Mann is a pen name.

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Weird & Wonderful Asian Stories

With a few creeping in from Africa

By

Adam Mann

© Copyright Adam Mann, 2018

Adam Mann asserts his rights as the author of this story.

ISBN: 9781370780181

Three wise monkeys

The three wise monkeys, sometimes called the three mystic apes, are a pictorial maxim. Together they embody the proverbial principle see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. The three monkeys are Mizaru, covering his eyes, who sees no evil;

Kikazaru, covering his ears, who hears no evil; and

Iwazaru, covering his mouth, who speaks no evil.

Table of Contents:

Adam’s Books at Smashwords:

The Privy in Zaria

Cricket in Vietnam

The Saying Goes that…

Poppies

The Bike

A Night Time Swim

The Chopsticks

Twenty Four Hours

The Post Office

Flooding in Yen Bai

Passion in the Office

South Asian Adventure

The Third Stage – Karachi

The Fourth Stage – Border War, fleeing to safety

Writing Romance Books

Adam’s Books at Amazon KDP

The author, Adam Mann, hopes that you enjoyed reading this book.

Adam Mann has written other books all published and available from Smashwords.

All the Nice Girls Love a Sailor – take a cruise in the South China Sea with a new first officer, the captain, the company who chartered the ship, and various of the ship’s crew, not forgetting two bandits! https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/471919

African Tales – four delicious ladies each working in West Africa in the 1960s, each with a tale to tell, and one bringing with her a copy of the Karma Sutra. https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/639392

Black High Heels – a young lady is bequeathed a hotel and a restaurant, but is being pursued by local gallivants, until she meets a visiting Aussie so she dons high heels to show off her legs! https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/497249

BODY HEAT - Can Jennifer survive 21 days naked in an Asian forest with a naked man she’d just met on a Social Network?

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/

DEPRAVED! – a healthy red-bloodied man finds local ladies to his liking as he travels from job to job, until one day he is found by a beautiful girl! https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/626269

Dreaming… - James is struggling to make his project effective until one day he meets Ioana with the flowing auburn hair, and then his work become even more difficult. https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/619462

Escort or Partner – Charlie hires an Escort to go with friends on a long weekend holiday. The manager of the Agency arrives instead of an escort, and finds she is falling in love with Charlie!

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/931497

Hanoi Heat – a simple love story in which a man meets a lovely lady at an Embassy reception, and which turns out to be curtains under certain conditions for both of them.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/461761

Heat in the Tea Gardens – here the lady is the aggressor until she meets a man who can cope with her plastic bra, a crooked financier and two tea factories.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/496978

Helga’s Red Thigh Boots – Joseph and Helga find that they both have pet names for their Pudenda, which starts a whole train of events, and a flight to Canada to buy her Red Thigh Boots. https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/495034

Kandy Heat – Makshi falls for the man she met sitting on her kitchen doorstep! But then he is attacked by a man with a hard wood baseball bat, so she has to look after him. https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/481325

Love in the Boondocks – Another simple love story. Kim is divorced by her uncaring husband who is only interested in salary, until she meets Dave working in a remote village. https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/676005

Love in the Air – A lady meets a Canadian man on a delayed flight to Taipei – layover in transit now has a new meaning! https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/760958

Love in the Rain - Getting wet and cold in the rain results in two people warming one another together!

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/757634

Red High Heels – two people with similar names are booked into the same room in a hotel by accident, but they manage to tell jokes and fall in love.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/466177

Did they really camp in a pup-tent in the Masai Mara?

It's not the lions they have to worry about - it's the Hippos!

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/933010

Singapore Heat – three men and three ladies are all working in Singapore, and they struggle to survive, until one pair falls in love; the others fall into trouble.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/481048

West African Project – a true story where Ivan finds himself working in remote West Africa, only to find himself being cared for by a young widow, and a host of farmer families. https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/492110

William Mary & Percy – romance following a take-over bid in London, but who is Percy, and what has Samantha has to do with the love affair?

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/719820

The following novels by Adam Mann and also available from Smashwords

The Showers – A tour guide is leading a team on the Yorkshire Dales, until a farmer’s wife joins him as a takes a shower.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/919248

Claudia and the Lords of Peterborough – the heir to the Earl of Peterborough is killed in a flying accident, which poses problems for his widow.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/919271

His Third Wife – in the 19th Century bigamy was a touchy subject, and several bestselling books on the subject were written at that time. Adam Mann finds another interesting case.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/583627

Naked on Holiday – two elderly men take a holiday together and both find themselves entangled with ladies! https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/593534

Don’t Take Your Shoes Off – a Box Set of three of Adam’s eBooks where ladies show off their high heels – and their legs. https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/892253

eXtasy Books have published this single novel for Adam Mann, which is also available from Smashwords:

Tsunami – in December 2004 a huge Tsunami kills about 3,000 people around the Indian Ocean, including several hundred at Hambantota in Sri Lanka. The family has to come to terms with the tragedy. https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/604817

The Privy in Zaria

I’d been invited to a party in Zaria. Now I’d better explain Zaria is a town in the north of Nigeria just a bit north of Kaduna, and in those days was the centre for tobacco cultivation. That party was the best part of 50 years ago, like 1970.

The staff of the tobacco company lived in a row of houses along one road facing the old racecourse, and some had been modernized, but one or two still had their privy at the back of the house. The custom was that when one privy was filled another would be excavated not so far away, and the small outbuilding the privy would be manhandled to the new site, so that the seat of the lavatory would be over the newly excavated hole in the ground. The earth excavated would be partially used to fill in the hole at the old site.

The house for the party actually had two privies. They’d probably borrowed one from their modernized neighbour. One was in occasional use and the other had evolved into a handy garden shed.

Well, let’s go back to the party. We were all having a good time and the party giver had ensured that there was good supply of cold ones. It was nearing midnight when one partygoer decided that a trip to the privy would be a good idea. Maybe the new modern lavatory inside the house had been occupied.

It was a bit dark and there was no light so instead of standing to urinate into the privy he decided to take down his trousers and sit on the seat inside the privy.

So far so good.

Suddenly all the partygoers heard a huge shout, from the occupant of the privy. The wooden door was flung open and he staggered out with his trousers still around his ankles. He didn’t get far dressed like that before he tripped up and fell flat on his face but was still hollering loudly; I’ve been bitten by a snake!

Several men rushed out of the