THE GARAGE – A LOVE STORY. The garage door slams open and beside me Cory groans. “Kill me now.” I gulp and look over the piles and piles of junk in the garage. For seven years it’s been our garbage tip for things that we didn’t want in the house, but that were just too […]
Flash Fiction 1st March 2017
Just in time for International Puppy Day on 23rd March, I give you a puppy romance. Enjoy! I pointed at him and said sternly, “Stay.” The puppy’s head cocked to one side, and his tongue lolled out of his mouth. He looked at me as if I was the only person in the entire world […]
Flash Fiction 15 January 2017
Sorry everyone – we’ve gone a bit dark today!! Don’t hold your breath. She screwed up her eyes tight, and tried to breathe normally. All the way out. But she couldn’t breathe back in. Panic washed over her. She couldn’t breathe back in. Just do it. It will all be over soon. Her head […]
Flash Fiction 11 November 2016
The flashbulbs hurt her eyes, and the sun pricked skin that until very lately had known only cold. She tried to speak, but the words were stuck in her frozen throat. A bank of unforgiving microphones waited in front of her mouth, yet she couldn’t say the words. These clothes were not her clothes, these […]
Flash Fiction 6 October 2016
Ephemyia sailed around the room, her white gauzy gown floating behind her in a sea of ripples. Everything was going to plan. Graden was deep in her clutches, little did he know his soul was slowly being devoured by her every time he locked his green gaze on her unusual lavender eyes. She had won him […]
Flash Fiction 19 September 2016
“Mocha! Come here girl!” My cat zoomed across the front lawn and in the door like a coffee-coloured bolt of lightning. I went to close the door, but was arrested by an irritated sounding, “Hey!” Looking around, I found my gorgeous new neighbour coming in my direction. He’d been loads of fun to watch move […]
Broken Hearts will Mend
This is my attempt at a thriller, written in less than 2500 words, for the NYC Midnight Short Story Challenge 2016. I’m not sure it really makes it as a thriller, but it has some suspense, some action and some surprises, so hopefully it will pull me through round one of the competition!
Loving Louise
This is just a little taster for you of the world of provincial pre-revolutionary France, where my upcoming novel, The Hidden Duchess is set. 3900 words Louise sighed, irritated with herself. She had just daydreamed away a good half an hour – thinking about Francois again, of course. The always-present-but-completely-unattainable Francois. She pulled her puckering […]
Samira
4100 words In the cool of the evening, fewer visitors entered the temple of Sekhmet. Samira could finally sit down and rub her tired feet. Life at the temple was always busy – sweeping away the ever encroaching sand, making prayers and sacrifices to our Lady Sekhmet regularly to dampen her wrath, assisting the worshipers, […]
Nonny’s Lunch
This story backdates to 2004 – so forgive me for any sloppiness – it was written a LONG time ago!!! (400 words) The boy and girl walked hand in hand across the meadow. The sight that met their eyes as they crossed over the hill was truly breathtaking and they stopped to savour it for […]