Ompwriter Stories

Another collection of short pieces, random thoughts and things that occurred to me in the middle of the night.

Lisa was tired of waiting for their first baby to arrive. She couldn't stand any delays once the due date had passed.

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...

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 tales of growing up in a working class suburb of South Australia in the 1950's. My Dad was the butcher, next door was the grocer. Milk and bread were del...

Meet the writers of OMP and see what they're working on.

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...

The Weekend Write-In just keeps going ... .

Patricia is a recovering alcoholic who returns to the town where she had been a wife , and briefly, a mother. She is trying to recover lost memories around the trauma...

A collection of short stories - fleeting moments of gratification in floating worlds.

More short stories from the Weekend Write-In.

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

Another volume of Weekend Write-Ins.

A collection of short stories, each one written in November 2016. The stories cover all genres and many worlds of the imagination.

Whitney Wells is getting married to Ron Pond, a bloke she met on a Pacific Cruise just a few months ago. Whitney, called Whit by her friends and family, is agog with tee...

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...

Last decade, before we moved back to our present farm in the country we love so dearly, I was a careworker for a few years. This story is about one of my most frustratin...

More of the Weekend Write-In.

A new volume of Weekend Write-In stories.

Short tales of the paranormal.