Edith

By Limey Lady

Heather is kind and considerate by nature so, when her virginal friend has "man trouble", she is only to happy to help out. And where to start but with that pesky virginity . . .

• Language: English
• Publisher: Limey Lady
• Release date: Oct 4, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463644935

Limey Lady

Here's a confession for you: I'm not sure if "Limey Lady" is a pseudonym or my alter ego. Back in 2016, when she came into being, she was definitely a nom de plume. Now, however, I am not so sure.As background, I have always written stories but, up to 2009, writing took a backseat, way behind the demands of my family and career. Then a life-changing medical condition . . . well, it changed everything for and about me. Suddenly I had/have time to spare. Suddenly I was/am churning out tale after tale.I was born in York but brought up in West Yorkshire, in part of the Aire Valley often described as "Bronte Country". I must say, though, that although most of my stories are set locally, they have little in common with the fine works of Charlotte, Emily and Anne. So far my output can be divided into two: long stories featuring ne'er-do-wells, guns and some violence . . . and shorter stories featuring "liberated" women who rarely do what they're supposed to do.Limey Lady was created to be the author of the short stuff. But the longer novels all include feisty, uncooperative females - much like her characters - so I'm going to put her name to both as I publish on Smashwords.Watch this space . . .

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Edith

By LimeyLady

Copyright Mark C Woolridge (writing as LimeyLady), 2018

Distributed by Smashwords

All characters and events in this publication,

other than those clearly in the public domain,

are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual persons,

living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Table of Contents

Chapter One - Spilled emotions

Chapter Two - Hugging

Chapter Three - A sweet loss of virginity

Chapter Four - Plotting

Chapter Five - The most cunning of cunning plans

Author’s Note

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Chapter One

Up until her final year at uni, Edith had given everyone the impression her emotional system had been cryogenically frozen. She’d never even once been on a date or shown the slightest indication of being drawn toward a fellow human being. Not sexually drawn, anyway. The idea of her ever having a love problem was, quite frankly, absurd. But, early into her final autumn term as an undergraduate, she at last proved she had feelings after all.

Yes, they came flooding out one evening in the Union Bar, big style.

Heather was sitting alone in a quiet corner, drinking Marston’s and trying to make sense out of a thick Econometrics textbook when her friend arrived at her table, bearing two new pints. Edith’s always fretful expression was more intense than usual. She obviously had something on her mind and, over the course of several more beers, Heather got chapter and verse . . . slowly, and very, very painfully.

Good grief, getting confessions out of her was like pulling hens’ teeth. Her version of flooding out was not a fast one!

After Mary Rose, Edith was easily the cleverest person Heather knew. She was a research chemist (Great with Stinks as Mare would have put it) and had become a bit of a star among her peers. She was already inundated with offers to keep on researching when she graduated, no doubt summa cum laude. While not as naturally intelligent as Heather’s old school chum, Edith had the gift of only ever needing to hear things once. Her comprehension and retention were first class. So too was her work ethic: she could always be found slogging away in her lab for minimally twelve hours every day, seven days every week. The combination of effort