Zeelandia Port Royal
With nothing left for her in England, Camille had disguised herself to become the captain's cabin boy in a ship bound for the Caribbean in 1676. This is the sequel to the award-winning first volume of her story.…
Weekend Write-In Story Collection
This Wattpad Anthology Winner is a collection of fifty-two of the short stories I've written for the Weekend Write-In challenges.Each story is exactly five hundred words long, except for two which specified one thousand words. From the beginning, I have taken the challenge further by using interpretations of the prompt that differ, sometimes dramatically, from those that usually come to mind.…
Unknown Diners
Reviewing restaurants is normally a safe pursuit, but Lorne and Catherine face torture and death when they try to unravel organised crime's infiltration of the fine dining scene. Their longstanding friendship deepens when they meet again seven months after she was widowed by murder. While they help each other work through their traumatic pasts, their passion and intimacy increase, and they're unaware of the mounting danger until it's almost too late. Their scramble to track down who is trying to kill them leads into the darker corners of the Internet, through a world of perversion and extreme body modification.…
A Wee Dram
Originally written for the WriteOn Weekend Write-In prompt themed "Macabre Menagerie" - 30 October to 1 November 2015. With no word limit, tell a story that includes at least three of these elements: Witchcraft, face paint, candy corn, ducks, a candle, a mirror, chanting, dread. This is a simple imaginary tale of a single malt distillery, all of it based on fact and tradition. For self-challenge, I've stuck to the 500 words. Cheers...…
A Stout Ticket
This is a story from a picture prompt on @HistoricalFiction. In five hundred words tell a story about it. Two salty mariners get into a tale-spinning match in a tavern.…
To Cape Horn in Comfort and Style
This is a short story I wrote for the One Million Project.Young David finds a book on his grandfather's shelf, and he asks questions about it.…
Moving Aboard
Written for the Weekend WriteIn prompt "Moving Day" 17-19 February 2017. In 500 words, write a story where somebody moves away.Memories of moving aboard in preparation for sailing off for a few years. This was my fifty-fifth move in sixty-five years, and the story is an excerpt from my blog at the time.…
The Crush
In 500 words, tell a story in which love is unrequited. Written or the WriteOn Weekend Write-In prompt "Unrequited", 12-14 February 2016. Young Catherine begins the maturing process.…