novels • short stories • flash fiction
Easy to pick up
for a brief read, but
not so easy to put down.
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Together these books offer
a little of everything for everybody.
Eclectic collections of creativity
from micro-fiction, through flash fiction
maybe a little poetry, to short stories.
Hints of Darkness
A BRAND NEW COLLECTION
OF SHORT AND VERY SHORT STORIES
Much like a fairground
you'll find plenty to entertain you
from candy floss pleasures to
thrilling rides and even to the ghost train.
Hints of Darkness is a collection of short works featuring a generous mix of tales that embrace a variety of genres from light humour to the macabre. Many with a dark turn to the plot.
You will encounter both human tragedy and delight, you will meet monsters and paranormal experiences, ordinary folk in less than ordinary situations, a few ghosts and some futuristic scenarios. Your emotions will be stretched between sorrow and joy … and fear.
Most of all you will be entertained, so that the bleaker moments of your life can be lifted, happier days complemented – and senses sometimes shocked.
Available now at Amazon in Paperback and Kindle versions.
Colours in Darkness
"Quite simply, stories to tease the mind,
that don’t tax the brain."
Over 90 works of
flash fiction and short stories
that bring colour to dark moments
or add sparkle and humour
to brighter moods.
Colours in Darkness is my third collection of short works and draws together a selection of flash fiction and short stories, with some that bridge the two genres.
Between them, they reflect many aspects of life – past, present and future – in a variety of writing styles. Stories range from the emotionally dark and spiritually macabre to fond memories and pure humour. A story for every mood. Once you've read them all, you'll be able to chose which ones to re-read to suit the spirit of your day.
This book is a reader’s pic'n'mix collection, intended to add colour to the dark days, thoughtful reflections at quiet times, or simple entertainment to enliven the brighter moments. The light, the dark and the sheer sinister, all cheek by jowl, in serendipitous order.
The Schooling Chair
"It's where you find what life's about
and what stirs your imagination."
The brightness of early years,
the sadness of the last.
From yesterday into the future,
with humour, compassion
and simple reflection.
The Schooling Chair is the place where dreams are made, futures born and the world opens up its treasures.
This compilation of short stories and flash fiction does much the same, reaching to every corner of emotion, spanning time and place; even taking you to the far reaches of the universe; and beyond earthly knowledge.
Whatever genre you favour, you will most likely find a story in here to swell your soul, but read on beyond that and you will find that there is so much more to discover, conveyed to your imagination through brief encounters with other lives, other views; some to make you smile, some a little sad, some to make you think awhile.
Dandelion Days
"If beauty is in the eye of the beholder,
so can evil be."
Flash fiction, short stories, poems.
Some with serious intent,
some with humour.
All entertaining
in their different scenarios.
Dandelion Days is as much memories and moods as summer leisure. Some see the dandelion as an evil weed, others recall the beauty of a wildflower spread across a sunlit field. Whichever your point of view, this book provides a varied collection of prose, poetry and rhyme to match many a mood.
A collection of stories originally written for my own amusement, reflection or especially for my family – be they adult or child – this eclectic compilation is a short volume that is designed to be dipped into when you just want to fill a few moments with a short, quiet, yet complete, read.