Portfolio Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Weaving the Wildwood

Weaving the Wildwood

All she wants is a place of her own. When Alison Porter finds a tiny cottage for sale, she thinks her dreams have come true. Inside virgin bushland, “Crow Cottage” ...
Fate in Your Hands

Fate in Your Hands

Fate leads those who follow In a dilapidated bookshop. In the red desert. 1,000 km from anywhere. Erik meets three mysterious women. Who might just change his life. If he’s ...
Minty and the Monster

Minty and the Monster

Even the ruthless Security Directorate holds Gala Events for its best and brightest Newly graduated Second Lieutenant Minty Hollister is in charge of the inaugural Distinguished Service Awards. There’s a ...
Payton’s Run

Payton’s Run

Failure is not an option In a universe where citizens are bred to fulfil functions. Payton respects the authority her elegant and intimidating tactical uniform gives her. Is resolute on ...
Success at the Academy

Success at the Academy

Success in the Security Directorate is not guaranteed From birth to death, citizens face gruelling physical and mental testing. Lieutenant Jemima Hunt runs candidate 124 through his paces. And finds ...
Psychic Detective

Psychic Detective

Grief’s a bitch Derek Ericsson can’t get over his son’s death in a drink driving incident. Resents his wife for moving on and leaving him behind. Private Investigator Shirley Weaving ...
Mystery of the Master Suite

Mystery of the Master Suite

When all is not as it seems When Morag Fox née Clemetine goes missing on her wedding day, Inspector Morrison assumes she’s overcome by emotion and run away. Fifteen year ...
Special Relativity in Space

Special Relativity in Space

Travelling can be detrimental to your health… Humans have spread across the universe. Super-sized cargo ships ply the space lanes. On board, Space Mariner third class Kumahl Levi detects a ...
The Ghost Detectors

The Ghost Detectors

Zoo doesn’t believe in ghosts… Zoo hosts The Ghost Detectors show. As far as he’s concerned, it’s all mass hysteria. When his show visits Hayward Hall, he’s not prepared for ...
Love in the Past Tense

Love in the Past Tense

When the stars align, all things are possible. Melbourne, 2021. Morag Clementine. Typical twenty-first century woman. Hayward Hall’s new houskeeper. Melbourne, 1904. Henry Fox. Typical nineteeth century man. Recently inherited ...
Space-Time Paradox

Space-Time Paradox

At the right time and place… It is Morag Clementine’s first day at Hayward Hall, and so far, she is impressed. Mystified, but impressed. Barely noticing the clock stopped at ...
Histories of Hayward Hall

Histories of Hayward Hall

Meet Morag Clementine. The new housekeeper at historic Hayward Hall. Her practical and capable attitude usually keeps her out of trouble. Above all, her no-nonsense, get it done approach. And ...
Security Directorate Dossiers (vol. 1)

Security Directorate Dossiers (vol. 1)

In a ruthless fascist dictatorship, the Director General commands all. Controlled and Indoctrinated from birth, strengthened by an all-encompassing eugenics programme, and challenged by rigorous genetic, physical and mental tests, ...
The Ghost and Ms Cox

The Ghost and Ms Cox

Life interrupted To say the letter was a surprise was an understatement. It arrived addressed to Miss Finlay Cox, which made the contents even more extraordinary. Orphan Finn Cox inherits ...
Unavoidable Fates

Unavoidable Fates

Do you believe in fate or free will? Is your fate fixed and unchangeable? Or would you do whatever you could to change it? Tragic or comic, is there a ...