The gorgeous brunette needed a room. I was looking for something more. She wasn’t. A shame, that.

The window sign is coming down again. My new flatmate is a dazzling redhead.

Here’s hoping we both have better luck this time and she need never know what I am capable of.

Christine Nedahl is a retired teacher from the Rhondda Valley, South Wales, now living with her husband in Arboleas in the Almanzora Valley, Spain. She enjoys writing about anything and everything, but flash fiction and poetry are currently favourites. She has been published in a number of anthologies and is a member of Writers Abroad.