A Modern Fairy Tale Rosemary was not actually a princess, not in the strictest sense of being born […]
Category Archive: Short Stories
I’ve been unfaithful to my partner, her best friend says. Amber thinks, so have I. Amber can guess […]
Mrs. O’Reilly sat at the kitchen table polishing the spoons, wondering where she had gone wrong. Pregnancy had […]
The Covid-19 pandemic sent shock waves through the community centre, but eventually we returned to what passes for […]
‘You’ll have another will ya, Jan?’ Siobhan asks over her shoulder on the way up to the bar, […]
It was as though a tiny man was sitting, cross-legged, playing bongo drums inside her chest. She knew […]
I made a mistake. I should never have agreed to go shopping on Christmas Eve with my heavily […]
Chloe is the one. She’s the woman I’ve been waiting for all my life. There’s just one minor […]
I have too many shoes, but that wasn’t always so. As a child reared in a poor family […]
Ollie talks. Not that Bridget listens, she’s too absorbed in the mundane task of fastening her bra, a […]
‘Hello Sarah, I’m calling because…well, I have something big to tell you, but you’re going to think I’m […]
Prequel You know the original folklore version of the Black Velvet Ribbon story. How in a previous century, […]
I’m Margaret Goodenough and I’m your guide for this afternoon. Photography is permitted outside the house, but not […]
In the bad old days (BOD) before legalization, my husband Mac and our teenage son, Teo, propagated six […]