'Numbers' is the third book of short stories and poems written by Ruth Partis. She is very grateful to the Sheppey Writers Group for their encouragement and continual nagging without which this book would never have been completed. (And probably not even started.) Ruth is also grateful to TAUP UK Publishing who have turned her work into what she hopes is a presentable volume. Most of the contents are published for the first time, but there a few favourites deemed worthy of another view. Ruth's stories tend to be very short enabling the reader to re-read them easily or indeed read them aloud to someone else. Ruth's two previous publications 'The Incomplete Works of Ruth Partis' and 'My sister's Shoes' were very well received and are still available (as of 2015).