Short Stories Online, Day 15

Better late (massive power cut wiped out my lunchbreak, waaaa!) than never ... today's short story:

'Pumping Up Napoleon', by Maria Donovan

This week's theme is not that difficult to guess. C'mon!

On hearing the first ...

.. mosquito of spring.

Actually this was at the weekend. It whined, and then bit me. (Yes, I'm sure it wasn't a cat. They hardly ever chomp on me, not like some cats I could mention).

I have found the quick route to werk (16 miles: 35 mins: memo to self, avoid school-time in Newdigate) and it is ever so pretty, with daffodils and crocii and flooded water meadows.

I have ongoing fatigue; a stomach bug that's been with me since Hong Kong; and a sympathetic new GP. Yay for the last!

And the response to my Bookmooch inventory is overwhelming. I've only listed fiction A-C and I have accumulated over 30 points. And what do points make? More books*!!!. I intend to discard a thousand books, and they'll be going via Bookmooch ...

*ones I want more than the ones I'm getting rid of -- replacements for lost / damaged copies, paperbacks instead of hardbacks, recent fiction, obscure foreign stuff ...