The World’s Longest
Road Novel
in Stories
Three rootless generations
One family
147 stories and counting
Stand-alone short reads
Same characters
Everything is linked
Most Recent Stories
Featuring the second generation – Carrie and Jonathan who live with their daughter and special needs son in Yuma, AZ.
Contemporary family fiction taking place in and around 2015-2018
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His Last and First Breath
Jonathan has to face survivor’s guilt in a way nobody could have foreseen …
Story year: 2018Reading time:
42 minutes -
The Arsenal
Sleepless nights and how to be in them
Story year: 2017Reading time:
4 minutes -
Rifts of the Mind
Peace of mind as a special needs parent is the treasure you always seek
Story year: 2017Reading time:
5 minutes -
The View from Babel
When you know how to change for the better, what does it take to actually do it?
Story year: 2017Reading time:
4 minutes -
To Keep or Not to Keep
Do you throw out things or memories? There is no easy answer …
Story year: 2017Reading time:
9 minutes -
The Fence
Carrie is thinking about how to get out of a unique kind of prison
Story year: 2017Reading time:
10 minutes -
Looking for the Stars
We’re all in the gutter, but some of us are looking …
Story year: 2017Reading time:
5 minutes -
The Smell of Rain
A little story about the importance of rain drops.
Story year: 2017Reading time:
2 minutes -
No Other Could See Me Through
When her mother is dying, Calum and Deborah have an uneasy but hopeful reunion.
Story year: 2017Reading time:
12 minutes -
Moments of Lost Time
What memories last half a century?
Story year: 2017Reading time:
7 minutes -
Holding the Line
How not to attend a funeral because you have special needs children.
Story year: 2017Reading time:
14 minutes -
Coral Treasures
What can always defeat the darkness?
Story year: 2017Reading time:
9 minutes
OUT NOW
My first print collection published in 2025!
It contains a tight sequence of fully edited and updated linked short stories that read like a little novel!
Available with most online retailers!
Thoughts
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