Kindle Short Stories


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.

A Portrait of Louisa & Other Stories is available from Amazon UK and Amazon.





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

You Can't Love a Stranger & Other Stories is available from Amazon UK and Amazon







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.

The Painting & Other Stories is available from Amazon UK and Amazon








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.

A Friend Like Aunt Buffy & Other Stories is available from Amazon UK and Amazon







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.

The Mother of the Bride & Other Stories is available from Amazon UK and Amazon





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.

Bad Company & Other Stories is available from Amazon UK and Amazon







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


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!)

Gold Digger & Other Stories is available from AmazonUK and Amazon.







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.









2 comments:

  1. 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!

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  2. Thanks for stopping by, Maria xx

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