Short Story Collections available on Kindle
A Portrait of Louisa &
Other Stories
A mixture of stories previously published in Woman’s Weekly, My
Weekly, Take a Break and The People’s Friend. The title story is a particular
favourite of mine and the idea came to me as I drove along my favourite stretch of road through the village of Bradfield in Essex. The road
twists and turns down a hill and you can see the River Stour which looks
beautiful come rain or shine. Some days the river is blue, others it is steely
grey. I must admit the view has been the starting point for many of my stories.
Cover picture was taken at Flatford Mill.
You Can’t Love a Stranger
& Other Stories
These stories are all about
animals and were previously published in My Weekly, Take a Break and Woman’s
Weekly. My pets and their antics feature strongly and Indy,
who friends will know defied the odds to live almost to
fourteen, features on the cover. My favourite story in this collection is The
Incredible Threesome which came to me after my springer spaniel, Sweep, gate-crashed
a dog show.
Cover picture is my beautiful Indy 03:05:2000 - 28:12:2013
The Painting & Other
Stories
These stories go way back to
my early days of writing for Take a Break when the twist in the tail was king.
I loved writing these stories and my favourite in this collection is The
Painting which was the first story I had published in Take a Break. It’s a
little bit spooky!
Cover picture taken in Wrabness Woods, Essex with Indy.
A Friend Like Aunt Buffy & Other Stories
This collection is made up
entirely of stories previously published in Woman’s Weekly. My favourite of these is A Friend
Like Aunt Buffy. The character of Aunt Buffy came to me one day when I was
thinking about my Godmother and it was one of those stories that almost wrote
itself.
Cover picture taken on Dovercourt beach with my two middle granddaughters.
The Mother of the Bride
& Other Stories
You Should Have Been Here is
the story closest to my heart in this collection of My Weekly stories. My mum died
four months before my daughter’s wedding and at every point in the day I
thought how much my mum would have loved this and how proud she would have been
of her only granddaughter. I find it very difficult to write about personal
loss and although I do use my own experiences a lot in my writing, there are
some things I can’t write about. However, those words, “You should have been
here, Mum,” kept going round in my head and in the end, I wrote the story.
Cover picture taken at the wedding of my youngest son in Buckinghamshire and featuring my eldest and youngest granddaughters.
Bad Company & Other Stories
There are twelve longer
stories in Bad Company which were all published several years ago in Fiction
Feast. They include stories about murder and revenge, but they all have hopeful
endings and the occasional hint of romance. My favourite one in this collection
is I Want The Real Thing about a woman who wants a fur coat and is determined
to get her own way.
Cover picture taken in winter of a field on the outskirts of Dovercourt looking towards the village of Little Oakley.
Haunted & Other Stories
As the title suggests, the
twelve stories in this collection are all ghostly tales. A ghost of one sort or
another features in every one and some are friendly, cosy sort of ghosts and
others are not. No Such Thing As Ghosts
was written after I had a dream about a rather horrible ghost taking up
residence in my daughter’s house. I woke up with the whole kitchen scene from
that story vivid in my mind. Fortunately, it was just a dream!
Cover picture taken on a damp, foggy day in Dovercourt Cemetery.
Haunted & Other Stories is available from Amazon UK and Amazon
Gold Digger & Other Stories
Gold Digger & Other Stories
There are fifteen tales with
a twist in this book starting with Gold Digger, the story of a young woman (all legs
and high heels) who marries for money. The stories were all published in Take a
Break about twelve years ago and I hope most of them will make you smile. What
Did You Say To Her? is my favourite in this collection. I wrote it after a trip out with my lovely mum. She didn’t mix up her words like Gran in the story, but
the incident with the lorry driver and the case of mistaken identity in the
cemetery really happened.
Cover picture by Rob. Those are my lovely legs (what? I'm a writer, I'm supposed to make things up! And they're not his legs either!)
Margaret's Mouse & Other Stories
The twenty stories in this collection were all previously published in The People's Friend. They are heart-warming tales about weddings, babies, friendship and romance and of course all have a happy ending. In the title story, Margaret thinks a mouse is pinching her cakes while out in the garden, something is eating husband Gordon's chrysanthemums.
Cover picture by Rob.
Margaret's Mouse & Other Stories is available from AmazonUK and Amazon.
The twenty stories in this collection were all previously published in The People's Friend. They are heart-warming tales about weddings, babies, friendship and romance and of course all have a happy ending. In the title story, Margaret thinks a mouse is pinching her cakes while out in the garden, something is eating husband Gordon's chrysanthemums.
Cover picture by Rob.
Margaret's Mouse & Other Stories is available from AmazonUK and Amazon.
Lovely to see your stories are available on Kindle, Teresa. So they're available to me too, although I don't get magazines from the UK here!
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by, Maria xx
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