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Short stories are a fun way for me to take a person, an overheard conversation or just an interesting word, on a journey into their possible futures.  I never know where one of my short stories will go, I only know where it will begin.

 

Below are the opening lines of four of my favourites, I guarantee you won't guess the endings!  Just click to read the whole story

DOD
DODs were something we were all issued with the January of the year we turned 15, along with our plots for mate, career and health.... 
New Mum 
He didn’t lift his eyes from the paper as Carole walked through the front door. “I got us a new mum,” she said. ...

WINNER of the Bluethumbnail / Limnisa Short Story Competition

Bernardo
 
A few days of every year he felt like everyone else.  On these days people didn’t cross the road to avoid him...
 

  WINNER of the Words with Jam Short Story competition

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Make the most of it
 
It was a sleepy town at the best of times, and a bitter wet Monday in February was most certainly not one of those...
 
Rosa
From the large banknote placed in her tray, her steely eyes rose to meet his and narrowed in anger, but all he saw was Hollywood...

  WINNER of the World City Stories competition

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