LaTonya

Schoolteacher Elliot Smith is standing on the the platform of an outdoor underground station late one night. He is not pleased having just wasted an evening watching a long faded band in a local pub. He is thinking about school the next day. It is raining and he just wants to get home to his empty apartment. His long time girlfriend has left him with the ultimatum of buying her share of the flat or sell it... He is plugged into his music when he hears a loud clattering. He turns to see a beautiful but very drunk female tumble down the steps. He races over to the foot of the old wooden stairs to catch her and stop her from hitting the hard tarmac of the platform. The lady is dressed in a silver, strappy short dress and a thin but expensive leather jacket. Her high heels are somewhere up the stairs. She has no bag or phone and doesn't seem to know where she is. He can get no sense from her but he takes pity...Just who is this mysterious lady? She appears to be in some trouble. Is she running from someone? What is she doing on this almost deserted underground station? Elliot Smith's routine life is knocked off course...Little does Elliot Smith realise that this lady will change his life...This story is based on true events.... CR Spencer is a graduate of Manchester University and King's College, London and has worked in a variety of roles within the education sector including school principal and school inspector across the world from the Far East to Central America. He is the author of the Penance Trilogy and the creator of the character of Dagmar JohnsonCR Spencer lives in the Herault region of southwest France where he enjoys the peace and tranquility of the vineyards, the rolling hills and active village life. He writes almost daily when his unruly garden does not distract him...The author can be contacted on christopherspencer1952@hotmail.com