Vignettes Stories

Needful Things (inspired by Stephen King's story) is in fact three short stories unrelated except they all involve customers of an old antique shop. In the first story, middle-aged Amelia Pennington purchases an ancient love charm. The second features fourteen year old Danny who just wants the funds to take a pretty girl to the cinema but gets a lot more than he expected. In the third story young teacher, Anne Dawkins simply wants to restore order in the classroom.

It's the same train ride every day. For most people a boring commute. But she finds the press of bodies... exciting. And this journey turns out to be a more exciting ride than she had anticipated. Told in second person from a female point of view.

After many years of doing who she wants it's time to pay the piper / (Reviews)

A high school student recounts some events that changed his life when he turned sixteen. Set in Australia. Unable to correct typos due to laws related to character ages.

In a world where nearly all women wear Slut Collars, just one trigger phrase from becoming insatiable sluts, four men each have their own intimate experience with a Slut Collar.

A Story in the Life in the Suburbs Universe
The solicitors from Nutt, Case, and Friend prove using correct grammar is very important. And a government department learns, how important. Set in Australia.

Coming of Age in 1960s NZ. My Father's much younger bother advised, supported, and mentored me through adolescence. He shared the knowledge and insights from his own experience to ease my transition from guilt ridden and fumbling ignorance to a life any teenager would envy. The lessons I learned from Frank still stand me in good stead sixty years later. This is the story of my adventures with my third real girlfriend.

A small town laughs at the first automobile as a noisy nuisance, but over a decade the joke slowly reverses itself: blacksmiths, bankers, farmers, doctors, and even the town’s fiercest horse loyalists discover that the motorcar is not a passing toy, but the future arriving muddy, loud, useful, and inevitable.

A young schoolgirl endures a series of embarrassing, mistaken-identity situations.

Just a married couple, closing out the day. Fiction, with some nuggets of real life.