RW: What's your story/back story? Why would
someone come up with a story about you?
S-L: I’m more than a bit flattered. I was just an
average post-grad student going back to my home, but dreading having to meet my
former financé, even though he’d married my best friend whilst I was at
college.
RW: Can you tell us about your hero.
S-L: On the plane we sat next to one another, but
Charlie was just another passenger, although we both had to face similar flight
delays due to the terrible storms over the Pacific.
I
knew that he was Canadian and worked in agriculture, but I could sympathize
with that as I was a botanist.
As
we walked together in the airport terminal in Taipei, I suddenly realised I had
some sort of animal attraction for Charlie, and didn’t want to say goodbye.
RW: During what time-period does your story take
place?
S-L: Just this last winter, before Christmas, so
I suppose you’d call it contemporary.
RW: How are you coping with the conflict in your
life?
S-L: Very badly before I met Charlie, I feared having
to meet my former financé and his wife and our mutual friends, and because of
that my parents who’d probably be furious at my decision not to go home but to
fly away with Charlie.
RW: Bubble baths or steamy showers? Ocean or
mountains? Puppies or kittens? Chocolate or caramel?
S-L: I do love steamy showers, but can I be
difficult and say anything savoury?
RW: Cherries or Bananas? Leather or lace? Black or red? Mud Bath or
Oily Massage?
S-L: Cherries, Lace, and Red. (Don’t forget I’m Chinese.)
RW: If you came with a warning label, what would it say?
S-L: She bites.
RW: I love pizza with (fill in the blank).
S-L: Olives, ham and more cheese.
RW: You'd never be able to tell, but (fill in the blank).
S-L: I was never very interested in sex, and I thought that it was
something that people just did, but Charlie changed my mind!
RW: What is the one question you wish an interviewer would ask you?
S-L: Do you love Charlie?
RW: Those are all the questions I have for you.
Thank you for speaking to me.
S-L: Delighted.
ADAM MANN
I have worked for over fifty years as a
sustainable development consultant for emerging economies in Africa and then
Asia, but have now retired and live with my family in a mountainous area of
Vietnam. In my retirement I have published seven novels, and under my pen name
I have written another thirty-two romance novellas, some of which have been
self-published.
LOVE IN THE AIR
The Plot:
Two passengers find
some common ground on a flight to Taipei.
Charlie meets Sue-ling
on trans-Pacific flight to Taipei after flight delays due to bad weather, and
then further delays mean a long stop-over in the transit area at the airport.
He decides to stay at
the Airport Hotel where he can get a shower and rest a bit, and is helped by
Sue-ling who joins him as she too has been delayed by the weather.
Their post-flight
conversation becomes more than friendly, as they have to wait for their flight
connections, and a mix-up in the hotel bathroom exposes more than just her skin
as their relationship develops.
An Excerpt:
Charlie took his sponge
bag from his travelling case and headed for the bathroom, leaving his coat on
the other bed.
He shaved, and thank
goodness the water in the shower was hot. He dried himself and went into the
bedroom, wearing just a towel around his waist.
Sue-ling was asleep on
one bed fully dressed, and smiling in her sleep. Charlie took some underclothes
from his travelling case, got partially dressed, and got into the other bed,
pulling the duvet over him. But he had left the light on, so he left it.
Sue-ling herself woke
and went into the bathroom, also taking advantage of the hot water in the
shower. There had been only one large towel, so she draped a small towel around
her breasts, and headed back to the bedroom, and the bed she had been sleeping
in.
She jumped in and
pulled the duvet over her naked body, and tried to go back to sleep. She
probably did sleep until the early morning when the daylight wakened her. She
looked to see that Charlie was still sleeping in the other bed.
Charlie woke at that
moment and smiled at her, seeing only her face and lovely black eyes above the
duvet. Her gold ring earrings had been replaced by pearl stud earrings. She sat
up holding the duvet to her breasts, but she made sure that he could see her bare
back. She had a travelling bag herself but she had not bothered to open it.
“Recovered?” she asked
and smiled at him.
Charlie sat up himself,
but was not wearing a vest—he rarely did.
“Are you naked,
Charlie?” she asked.
Charlie looked down
under the duvet; “no I’ve got boxers,” he grinned at her. There was silence for
a moment—a pregnant silence.
“Can you pass me my
bag?” she asked, knowing full well that Charlie would have to get out of bed to
do that, and being a gentleman, he did.
She deliberately let
the duvet fall partially off the bed, so that Charlie could see she was wearing
nothing, which did nothing but excite him more than momentarily.
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