Ompwriter Stories

Maria discovers a strange lump growing on her abdomen. A short tale of things beneath the skin.

Written for the WriteOnWriters Weekend Write-In Challenge for 1 Feb 2019. 500 words, one weekend, and a story prompt -- this week's prompt was "arrive", tell w...

Melbourne, it's Australia's second largest capital city? Where do I begin to tell you all the things I love about Melbourne? It's cosmopolitan, vibrant, elegant, someti...

Space Monkeys - follow the adventures of experimental subjects Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta as they blast off into space and into a galaxy of adventure, intrigue and old...

A collection of short pieces inspired by the work of Hokusai.

Nothing creates a sense of space like a blanket of snow. Written for the weekend prompt, space.

A collection of short stories inspired initially by a wide array of prompts from various places. Sometimes it's one word; maybe a phrase or a saying; sometimes a particu...

'Bottle Fairy' is a collection of short stories, based in a world of sword and sorcery adventure. It will be added to on an irregular basis, depending on when I can thin...

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Miranda the absent-minded sleuth is taking a cruise to avoid anything related to solving mysteries, of any kind. But the forces just won't let her rest.

'Moodling' - it's all about mental doodling. This time it's looking at and loving many so-called 'material' things in my life. Read about my much beloved possessions...

Sometimes Life starts handing us choices we are none too ready to make... and some choices should never have to be made at all. Here's a story originally written for a...

More of the Weekend Write-In.

You work hard all your life towards one goal, winning the Olympics. Then something happens. How would you feel? Written for the 23 Feb prompt "compete".

A collection of flash fiction (and non-fiction) tales written for the purpose-designed 'Weekend Writein prompts', challenging writers to produce around 500 word stories...

There are those who tell stories, and those who are talebearers. There are those who are scribes, and write down the tales. When talents like these are combined, it's in...

More short stories from the Weekend Write-In.

As the title suggests, my second book of memoirs encompasses tales from our decade of dairying on our own farm, back in our home State of South Australia. A different le...

Short tales of the paranormal.

The third volume of stories from the WriteOn Refugees Weekend Write-In prompts.