A Love Story — the series

Who the hell is Miles J. Morrow?

Born in the East End of London. Lives on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland.

Spent most of his working life as a copywriter, paid to say a lot in very few words.

Now he writes love stories for people old enough to know better.

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Pen-and-ink drawing of an older man seen from behind at a waterside table in a harbour town, with a book, a letter and a glass of red wine

Aix-en-Provence
Cambridge
Venice
Seville

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A Reasonable Man

Aix-en-Provence

Leonard Maye has spent sixty-one years doing the sensible thing. It has cost him nothing anyone could see.

Now his oldest friend is dead, the funeral is in Provence, and the widow is the woman Leonard decided, thirty-eight years ago, it would be unreasonable to love.

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The series

A Love Story

Standalone stories. Real places. Decent people, and what being decent has cost them. Four so far, four more to come. Read them in any order.

A Reasonable Man

Aix-en-Provence

Leonard Maye takes the train south for his oldest friend's funeral. Nina, David's widow, will be there. For thirty-eight years he has done the reasonable thing.

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A Sensible Woman

Cambridge

A widowed music librarian in Cambridge opens a parcel from the Scottish Borders: an old Kepler in Latin, forty years of pencil in the margins, and a letter asking what she still believes.

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A Decent Interval

Venice

Three months after his wife's funeral, a retired judge goes to Venice to keep a promise they made together. In 1974 he met a woman there called Lucia. Neither of them forgot.

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A Winter in Seville

Seville

In the lining of his late wife's guitar case, Ray Laity finds a photograph of her at twenty-two, at a fountain in Seville. He takes the guitar back to the workshop that sold it, and stays the winter.

In progress

The long answer

Each story asks what a decent person gives up in order to stay decent. None of them answers too neatly.

Miles J. Morrow was born in the East End of London and has lived for many years on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland, Australia. He spent most of his working life as a copywriter and has been writing short fiction since 2002. He lives with his partner of forty years, and between them they have travelled a good deal further than either expected to.

A Love Story is his series of standalone stories about people who have, for good reasons, lived carefully. They can be read in any order and are published by Salt & Anchor Press.

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That's the deal. He hasn't the time for anything else, and neither have you.

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