This is a boy meets girl story.

Another modern and extennded Peoples’ Friend tale to have a wallow in.

Am I allowed to say that I have enjoyed writing it over the last few months?

If you like this sort of tale, I hope you will give it a go.

The story starts in Portree in Skye and moves to Glasgow and then, and then . . ..

Read on and find out how it unfolds, please.

I hope it might grab you.

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It is a novella with around 34,000 words plus punctation, self edited using the Read Aloud feature in Microsoft Word.

Although I have strived to make it error free, if you find a glitch, use you best judgement as to what I intended, and please read on.

Thank you.

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Two points to add.

Throughout the crafting of this story I have continually revisted a song on YouTube which I find haunting.

It sets the mood for the story. In fact I am listening to it as I type these words of introduction.

Click here to try it before you download the PDF for the story it inspired.

https://youtu.be/k98uWV8KTKU?si=_9_ni09ZAak2uHy2

Perhaps like me, you might find it intriguing to discover this song and its image were generated using AI tools.

Be resassured, my story with the same title came as fiction generated inside my head and WAS NOT WRITTEN BY AI ON MY BEHALF.

HOWEVER:

During the nuts and bolts of fact finding need to garnish my ideas, I did use an AI App called Perplexity (the free version).

In the past I have often used Google and its AI partner and I still do this for daily interrogation of the Internet.

However, for unearthing facts to inform my writing, I increasingly used Perplexity to collect and compare facts and provide information to inform the words I committed to the final text.

(If you write fiction, I commend it to you foir this purpose. It is quick to use and can be easily refined to uncover the information you want to add realism to the fiction you are dreaming up.)

Further, Perplexity is also brilliant and finding out contemporaneous information. It can earch all sorts of websites including Amazon and User manuals for items which need repair. A really useful Digital Assistant.