(Until Death is a 1250 word short story) I fell in love with my husband when I was eighteen. Everyone said I was too young for him and he was too old for me, but we had three happy years together before I killed him. Derek had bought me a four-wheel-drive car, more like aContinue reading “Until Death”
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Late Mail
(Late Mail is a 300 word murder mystery) My phone pinged with a message. I expected it to be a friend, checking in after David’s funeral. ‘Hello Lauren. You think you’ve got away with it, don’t you?’ It was David, but it couldn’t be, we’d just cremated him. Someone had hacked his account. ‘Who isContinue reading “Late Mail”
First Love
(First Love is a 1250 word short love story) Mary moved to a small village on the coast within a year of Vernon’s death. Her friends told her it was too soon, that she ought to wait and not make decisions so hastily but, if anything, she had waited too long. They never had childrenContinue reading “First Love”
Hannah’s Island – disaster strikes
A work in progress. A post apocalyptic novel of sorts, but set in somewhere between a dystopian and utopian world. The first disaster I envisaged for this novel is rising sea levels (it didn’t take much imagining). I had come across a map of how various coastlines, and indeed whole countries, would change if theContinue reading “Hannah’s Island – disaster strikes”
Gender fluidity in creative writing
A man writing women’s fiction? I am a man writing women’s commercial fiction. I never set out to trespass into a genre that is usually written ‘by women’ and ‘for women’, it just happened. When I was a child we had flip books that showed us how bizarre gender stereotyping is. They don’t exist nowContinue reading “Gender fluidity in creative writing”
