Oz Ozzie: Stories

It's easy to fall in love in with a class-mate who desperately needs to be rescued. The problem is that you have to confront your own demons before you can even start solving her problems. And then, just what does a young man have to do to save his love? The story might be Australian, but it could happen anywhere. / (Reviews)

Tess is struck by a bolt of love in what she thinks of as the most unlikely of places - a baptism. Warning: This story may not be to everyone's tastes, but that's not about squicks. I conceived this story in response to a comment in Frank Downey's blog about the stupidity of virgin marriage, and it is about a relationship in the context of being christian. There is sex, but there's also religion, which some have found uncomfortable

Eighteen-year-old Prince Gord rides out of a kingdom drowning under the weight of its lies with a sister he must protect, and a country he cannot save by force of arms. A summons from a being out of myth pulls him into a forest where he will meet this fate as prophesied, and where he will find that kingdoms are won not by killing the right men but by refusing to kill the wrong ones, and by oaths and stone and more than any of those, honour and respect. And love.

A young girl who is an addict finds love, magic and redemption in a wilderness adventure. / (Reviews)

A young woman, the family black sheep, is asked to stand up at her grandmother's funeral and tell the truth. In a family that runs entirely on appearances, that one request sets loose a single disturbing funeral nobody will be allowed to forget.

At the start of the story, Larissa is a young woman failing to cope with Covid. The story trace's Larissa's growth through the challenges of Covid and marriage with Julian, and the lives of people around her, ending with Larissa and her friends changing the nature of Australia

Sarah Holding, daughter of a convict, finds herself completely lost in Australia. The land is at once quite familiar and completely different in every regard when she runs away from her mother's murderer. (no explicit sex) / (Reviews)

An orphan girl encounters a horse in a forest that will change her life (Children's Story) / (Reviews)

In a drowned country of tidal channels and scattered farms, where the kayak is a man's horse and the half-hour message net is the only telegraph, the mayor is shot dead on the open water in front of the whole community. The sheriff — the best waterman on this coast, a man who has always gets his man in the end — sets off after the killer alone. For Louis L'amour

Hero of the realm Merko Hunsen marries the beautiful Vinda, and purchases a house slave girl for her. But his domestic bliss slowly turns badly awry.