Stories by length


Long = between 4000-6000 words (or longer)

Like Grace From The Earth (parts I, II and III) - A story about facing life’s bad decisions and deciding where to go from there – in a Greyhound bus …

That Which Cannot Be Broken - ‘Single white female is NOT looking for 3 horny bikers on crack’

The Perfect Time - An old friend shows up at the family doorstep, after years of silence. But this is not a social call … !

The One I Tried To Destroy (parts I-VI) - A single woman traveler in Buenos Aires goes out with a slightly dodgy war veteran … What are the chances she’ll come back again?

New Year’s Day  (parts I-IV) - If it was possible to scientifically prove God’s existence … would it make you feel better about someone close who had died?

Boats Against The Current - About that first meeting with your soulfriend-to-be … at a party from Hell

Warriors - Your brother has stolen a car and will go to prison – but only if you testify against him …
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Medium 
= between 2000-4000 words 

My Apple Tree - Is it too late to pursue an old dream just because you have been afraid to for over 10 years … ?

Islands In The Mind - There are those people you can meet on any journey, whom you would very much like to be friends with … if you dare

Roads To Leave By - What people say when you want to hit the road … and why they may never really understand

Betrayed As One Gets Free - How do you survive knowing that somebody else died in your place?

Kobayashi Maru -  A girl doesn’t know how to say that she may be in love with another girl … so she makes up a whole other story instead

3 A.M. Eternal - How soon would your best friend feel like saving you from alcohol poisoning when you’ve just called her the one thing she hates the most?

Strangers In Moscow - If a new friend you’d known for only a week said she would buy you the one thing you wanted the most, no strings, what reasons could there possibly be to refuse?

An Open Book - The school shrink and a very hard case


Short 
= between 1000-2000 words

When They Asked Me If I Knew You – Carrie dreams of doing important things. One day she borrows a book from an old lady. From now on her dreams won’t ever be the same

Is Your Love Strong Enough – Carrie struggles to find balance between her old passion for drawing and family demands. One morning she makes a choice …

It Couldn’t Happen Here - Dave has nightmares about a world war that never happened … or maybe it has?

Together - About being unemployed and married to someone who is not

In Spite Of Dreams - How would you feel if a friend, who left you 15 years ago, suddenly ‘friends’ you again – on Facebook?

Another Heart In A Different Scene - How the pen can sometimes be mightier than cocaine

When We Hear The Voices Sing  - Sometimes the most unexpected things can make us break with someone who kept us in chains for so long …

Across Icy Pools 
- Where to go when someone has gone away … from you?

The Division Of Lima - About standing at a very steep, very sharp edge … in your world

A Picture Of Life - What’s most unlikely to happen when two strangers meet on the road

All I Wanna Say IS – A story about whether or not it’s worth making graphic novel if next to nobody is going to read it

A Certain Disguise - Some people you don’t want to see. They are called mirrors … 

Daft Questions - How do you dismantle the fear of an atomic bomb?
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Flash fiction - 1000 words or less

When The Moment Arrives  – How should you greet an old friend … who dumped you 15 years ago when you need her the most?

A Letter For My Daughter - About the search for reasons to live, when you absolutely feel you are not

Let The Fire Die Down Soon - How is it that we can be dependent on something that obviously destroys us? [Explicit.]

No Doubt – A story about being friends with a girl who doesn’t know if she wants to be just friends… and why it might be worth trying anyway …

Point of Divergence – About the day a girl decides to run away from school – again

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