Please Click Here to listen to the Audio Recording On Monday morning, William boarded the school minibus and told Andrew all about his deeply embarrassing Sunday. “It wouldn’t have been so bad if we hadn’t gone to my grandparents.” he moaned. “And mum spent half the morning shaving my legs.” he said. “Your mum shaved […]

Please Click Here to listen to the Audio Recording The only classes Andrew and Willaim shared were their PE and dance classes. The rest of the time, they were separated and only really saw one another during lunchtime. Having endured four days at St Urshalla’s School for Girls, Alan has finally mastered skipping with a […]

Please Click Here to listen to Audio Recording The following morning, Andrew is collected by the school minibus soon after 7.30 am. It winds through the residential side streets, collecting various boys, and eventually, it heads towards William’s estate. Andrew wondered if William might have absconded again, However as the minibus pulls to a halt […]

Please Click Here to listen to the Audio Recording “Alison, can you explain to the class what an equilateral triangle is?” This name is doubly uncomfortable for Andrew, since it harks back to his dim and distant past when his big sister used to put him in a dress when babysitting him… she also used […]

Please Click Here to listen to the Audio Recording Unbeknown to William, three other girls had crept around the back of the pavilion and were approaching from behind. “Actually William… it is William, isn’t it?” she asked. “It is our business,” she said. “We’re missing class because you’re skipping school, and it’s our job to […]

Please Click Here to listen to Audio Recording “What the bloody ‘ell’s going on!” William’s dad barked when he returned home. William burst into tears and darted into his room where he threw himself upon his bed and cried his heart out. His mother gave him ten minutes before going up, by which time he’d […]

Please Click here to Listen to the Audio Recording Mrs Vaughn fetched a tea tray through and set it down on the coffee table. There’s a big teapot, a small jug of milk, four cups & saucers and a sugar bowl. She turned the pot and asked Miss Culnane if she took milk and sugar. […]

Please Click here to Listen to the Audio Recording MrsVaughn returned. “I was just coming to see if you needed any help with the buttons.” she said before looking them up and down and saying “They don’t look too bad.” “They look awful!” Andrew protested as he continued fastening William’s buttons. “Only girls wear dresses,” […]

Two lads, William and Andrew are playing truant from school. They spent the morning lurking around the railway sidings until a workman told them to clear off. They loitered around the town centre, avoiding policemen and panda cars. They pooled what little money they had and shared a bacon bap from one of those cheap […]

Please Click Here to listen to Audio Recording Things settled down, thanks to my saint of a mother. How she managed with a spoiled brat and an orphan child from another country, I’ll never know. But she did. She took him to a specialist in the Houston Medical Center to learn more about his gender […]