Fiction Stories

Awakening in a strange facsimile of his own reality, the places familiar yet the people oddly divergent, Ted struggles to adapt.

The wine flowed, the warmth of the bonfire had us in bikinis and sarongs, and at one point my friends decided to go sleep in the car because they “couldn’t take it anymore.” I wasn’t sleepy; the moon, the sea, the fire… everything had me in a state of quiet excitement. I stayed alone by the embers, drinking the last glass, when I saw two of the guys from the other group approaching, walking along the shore.

The story of an older woman looking for a change in her life.

Sally Tew lives in a seaweed hut between land and sea, forgotten by almost everyone. As Southern England waits in fear of Napoleon’s invasion, a violent storm washes a mysterious stranger onto her shore. Saving him forces Sally to confront enemies, danger, and a life she never imagined.

A product of illicit genetic engineering, Beth escapes from a research facility in a stolen kayak. Pursued by men in a fast cruiser, she turns into a limestone fissure, hoping to find a place to hide. Swept into a tidal cavern, she escapes, finding herself mystically swept into an alternate world.

Leonardo Da Vinci is commissioned to do a portrait of his friend's wife; he struggles to get the mouth just right.

On a weekend trip to Montréal, Pat Donovan finds the love of his life.

A simple story set in Britain during the final months of World War Two.

Charlie walks under a piano being swung into a 3rd floor window on his way to pick up his pension, paper and a bottle of milk, and wakes up standing on a cloud in front of the Pearly Gates. But accessing the Afterlife is not as as easy as it was, first you need a Password.... [an irreverent look at the serious business of death, afterlife and the dangers of messing about with "if it works...."

Twins spend the summer with the horniest old goat in the pasture.