Felicity 'Fliss' Farrah Fields embraced life. Truly, dearly loved life, but she loved her little florist shop, 'Petals', more than anything. Passed on to her when her parents retired, 'Petals' is everything Fliss could want from life. Except, perhaps, finding love. Finding women to sleep with, those wonderful ''Ms Rig...
Shion's life changed the day the world experienced the Blackout. Awakening to find her father ensorcelled (it *is* a word), Shion joins a group of adventurers, Dave, Jova and Jova's twin sister, the group leader, Mila, in order to find a mage powerful enough to break the spell. She soon finds that her father is not th...
[ONC 2024 Longlister] The heir to the kingdom has been kidnapped! Many great and powerful adventurers have tried to find him and bring him back to the loving arms of his father. Unfortunately, though great and powerful, they are also very much pitiful failures. When Luthiriensis, an elven tourist, and Mott, a perpetua...
[ONC 2024 Round 2 Ambassador's Pick & Longlister] Zjahn Zjmit, AKA Sean Smith, AKA Psycona. Alien refugee from a destroyed world. Peacemaker. Superhero. The life of a superhero isn't everything Psycona thought it would be. He feels unappreciated, undervalued, and sits in the shadow of other heroes. Heroes that he coul...
Caitlyn Carter never expected to see a battle between a superhero and a villain. When the hero, Black Staff, dies before her eyes, saving the lives of Caitlyn and her classmates, she soon finds that the hero's strange, shape-changing suit has chosen her as heir to Black Staff's mantle. Trying to juggle school, her soc...
Miraveh had watched as Kay, the Seeker of the Shards Of Mirrorwood, her best friend, defeated the Shade of Xirasir, the god of Despair. She had thought that the end of days filled with war and death. She thought wrong. Now magic has returned to the world, other dangers now threaten to destroy everything Miraveh holds...
Luke had always struggled with a sense of himself, fighting to reconcile feelings that threatened his relationships and his identity. After years of pushing those feelings deep down inside, and after losing his wife in a tragic accident, those feelings he thought consigned to the past begin to reemerge. When a night t...
In the days of the Old West, an unexpected event changes the world forever. When the dead rise to feed on the living, humankind congregate within swollen communities and only the very brave, or the very stupid, wander into the vast landscape now populated by creatures of nightmare. When Henry Pierce, intrepid reporter...
After his parents' divorce, Frederick Douglas finds himself in a wholly unfamiliar part of the country. Gaining friends proves difficult in an area where people like he and his mother are very different from those around them. When he sees his new neighbour, Mr Dibbs, he expects the old man to treat him as badly as ev...
Demi had tried to atone for her criminal past, but when a bold, adventurous, slightly insane narcissist of a Captain, Frisson 'Friss' Packlightly, falls into her orbit, she finds criminality has not finished with her. Along with Lap, a two-dimensional, very opinionated being who only Friss can understand, their found...
[Wattys 2022 Shortlister] [The Ambys 2023 Top Pick (Romance)] River May Dorsey loves tea. She loves it so much that, after her grandmother left her a substantial inheritance in her will, River decided to open a little tea shop where she sells tea from around the world. When one of her customers, Celeste, loses her job...
[ONC 2023 Shortlister] When the world screams, only the dead will know silence. After an unexplained event occurs, people across the world begin to scream. And never, ever stop. As the world falls into chaos, Henna Blackmore tries to survive, looting and scavenging what she can, when she can, but the screams never sto...
When a strange old woman comes to the village of Little Plimpton, her arrival sparks a conflict that could bring the entire population to the brink of war. And by 'war', read 'a series of petty grievances aired in public'. Humphrey, caught in the middle of the ensuing whirlwind of accusations, threats and mildly aggre...
After losing her husband during the pandemic, Runa MacCabe moves herself and her children to the remote island that her husband's family had owned for centuries, hoping that she, her daughter, Hertha, and her son, Stigr, can find some kind of peace and closure. When the island is rocked by an earthquake and a terrifyi...
Between 1813 and 1819, the great composer, Ludwig van Beethoven almost disappeared from public life. Many stories passed about the reason, but none could ever hope to know the truth. Until now. In 1818, Bernhard Gerber experiences something terrifying and heartbreaking, bringing him in contact with the great man, Beet...
A series of short stories for competitions on Wattpad. Including the Sherlock Holmes story, "The Illusive Companion", among others. Cover created in Canva, using Pixabay stock pictures.