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Showing posts with label short story. Show all posts
Showing posts with label short story. Show all posts

Thursday, 6 October 2022

Returning Home to Turnfrith

I am delighted to announce my latest short story is available as a Kindle Unlimted Edition on Amazon.

'They are gone. Please arrange a time to collect your share. The estate will be sold if you don’t want to buy us out. The funeral is next Thursday.’
Cary is returning to her childhood home, Turnfrith Manor Farm, now the aunt and uncle who raised have died but the curt email from her twin sister has left her reeling... Cary and her twin Jenette have one thing in common, Lucas, Jenette's husband. Long ago Cary and Lucas were teenagers in love, or so she thought. Now she's returned to face her family again, but shocking events quickly take over on her arrival and nothing is as it seems.

Please click on the link below to go to the Amazon page or click on image in sidebar for a preview.

Returning Home to Turnfrith



Tuesday, 14 June 2022

Serendipity Dispatch: Seven Short Science Fiction Stories

 I'm delighted to announce a new selection of three short and four flash fiction sci-fi stories about love, loss and life in the future, now available as a Kindle Unlimited Edition.


In 
The Cloud Collectors Meet the crew of Acie’s extraction ship, in orbit around the planet Minerva, busy cleaning the synthetic atmosphere when they find a stowaway with a story.

What is the strange hold a model of a city, left to Lettie by an old Aunt, has over her and why is she now lying to Victor. 
The Liminlands are calling to her.

In 
The Dividers Cory has a choice to make, real life mining minerals on an asteroid beyond the moon, or a virtual life on an ark, mining data but for some reason, their father won’t let them go to the arks.

Carol is waiting for the end of the galaxy, stuck alone in lighthouse on the edge of the Deep Crossing in space when another ship suddenly arrives. Will 
The Urgent Diversity of Existence, a pamphlet she is reading hold answers.

Contains adult themes.

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Thursday, 28 November 2019

Sil's Bar now available on Amazon Kindle

Dennis is ready for his holiday, he just has to finish filing a load of patent expiries before he leaves for a once in a lifetime space holiday on board The Nightingale..
Xiang is trying to find a cocktail for her alumni party but the patent-expired recipe she downloads goes horribly wrong..
Professor J. Javelin is trying to make a weaponised Zombie mind-control gene on Outpost Earth but there is an outbreak of very hungry insects to deal with..
Sil is running out of money trying to run space holidays on the spaceship The Nightingale. Sil's Bar, her beloved bar on the ship is almost bankrupt. It's twelve years since the Zombie outbreak and no one remembers them anymore...
It is Captain Rock Jansson's birthday and he's on his way to the nearest bar which just happens to be Sil's Bar..
When a new Zombie army threatens the galaxy, will old and new friends be able to work as a team to save the day?

Now available as a Kindle Edition on Amazon. (click here)


Tuesday, 12 November 2019

Schooner Bay

New for Winter 2019

 While on a business trip in the UK, successful American music publisher, Mirabella Smith searches for answers about a family heirloom, a painting of an old ship from the sleepy fishing port of Prawton in Devon. But her search uncovers more questions than answers about her family's tempestuous history. Will handsome local, Jonah Dolson, be able to help? The first installment of the Schooner Bay series.