Portfolio Category: Short Stories

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 ...
Last Case

Last Case

The problem with a family business… It gets personal real quick. After a break in at the White Family Investigations office, her grandfather dies mysteriously on a case, and Lily ...
Susan and the Gangster

Susan and the Gangster

The calm before the storm… Tasked to document every move criminal mastermind Nick Liang makes, Private Investigartor Susan Murray chooses to draw. Part life drawing, part Method of loci memory ...
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 ...
Blood and Bloody Profanity

Blood and Bloody Profanity

The one that got away… Every detective has a case that got away, and for Phobe Swan, it’s the kidnap, ransom and ultimately murder of Lette Walker. A decade later, ...
First Rung

First Rung

The new broom sweeps clean… Dot Sayers sat at her desk, huffed on the plastic card that was her new class A Private Security licence, and buffed it with her ...
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 ...
Shining Star

Shining Star

An author. An actor. An absolute mess! It’s a beautiful day at the movie studio. But author Jessica Mason thinks she might send her hero to Egypt. Then she meets ...
The Day the Schedule Broke

The Day the Schedule Broke

Take an ordinary moment. Add golden light and dramatic music. Now you’ve got a movie. Sandra (not Sandy, Sands or Sando) Lockwood works in a basement storage cupboard come office. ...
The Bygone Boyfriend

The Bygone Boyfriend

A single day can change a lifetime. After fifteen years, Jennifer Hughes is back in her home town on business. It seemed big and busy then. Now it seems very ...
Secret Singer

Secret Singer

La Dolce Vita. For real. Cosima is on a working holiday in Rome. Home of art, opera, and fine dining. She booked a hotel with an elegant staircase. Perfect for ...