Flesh and Blood

By Jason Cosnett

‘I know what you are looking at,’ said Harry. ‘Meaningless encounters will leave you empty in the heart in the long run, as I’ve told you so many times before. Not that you ever listen.’
‘Meaningful encounters haven’t exactly set your world on fire you know,’ Edward retorted. ‘Perhaps you should try meaningless ones instead for a change. I am unmarried by choice. You on the other hand would love nothing more than to cuddle up to the same woman night after night...only you are yet to meet anyone who is willing to risk one night, let alone a lifetime of them. Just remember that. '

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jason Cosnett
• Release date: Mar 11, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463290804

Jason Cosnett

There's a guy in the place who's got a bittersweet faceAnd he goes by the name of Ebeneezer GoodeHis friends call him 'Ezeer and he is the main geezerAnd he'll vibe up the place like no other man couldHe's refined, sublime, he makes you feel fineThough very much maligned and misunderstood

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Brotherly love

Dear Aunt Constance,

I trust you are well and have sufficiently recovered from that quite nasty bout of flu you had the misfortune to endure at the start of spring. No doubt you are back on your feet and tendering to your garden’s needs; you mentioned in your last letter how you were hoping to tackle those overgrown brambles down by your shed, and I am sure you have tasked it well.

I shan’t keep this letter long as I must get back to the ward soon. I will promise to write again in a few days though and tell you about what we have been up too in detail. I will just say however that Margaret and I were lucky enough to have some time off together the other week and we had a nice drive up to Bordeaux to see the sights. Whilst there, I did per chance manage to find some time to write a new story about one of my patients and his brother I encountered one morning in emergency. One the chaps was looking rather worse for wear following a nasty incident, and he ended up having to remain hospitalised for a good week or so on just a diet of fluids. They piqued my curiosity as one was a doctor and the other an author and I felt like quite the hybrid of the pair, so telling their story was a natural course of action. Admittedly, I’ve spiced up the narrative with a good dose of imagination, and as always, names have been changed to protect the innocent. I’ll be sending it off to my usual rag for publication shortly but I thought you would like to have a read of it first as I know you love a good bit of sauce.

Anyway, best I get back to ward duties; let me know if you enjoy my latest offering.

All my love,

James

Part One - Flesh

Edward and Harry Oakfield were brothers who resided together but lived very different lives. Edward was the elder of the two by a matter of just eighteen months and his charming good looks complete with wavy blonde hair, angled jaw and inviting eyes were a distraction to the fairer sex who found themselves completely smitten by him whenever they were in his company. Harry on the other way, was shy and submissive around women and whilst he too was handsome and easy on the eye, he just didn’t ooze the confidence and bravado that his brother splashed around.

Harry was a Rheumatologist with his own practice in the London borough of Bexley, and had toiled hard to establish himself as a fine physician. His practice had particularly boomed over the past couple of years, and he worked long hours to keep up with the seemingly endless number of patients that sought advice and respite from their ailments. Such an esteemed position in the community made Harry quite the eligible bachelor, but no woman had yet found the desire to accept a request for a second date; despite his good looks they found him dry, boring, and lacking in charm and appeal (though no-one had ever quite said as such to his face). Instead, a courteous ‘thank-you, we