Category: Short Stories

A collection of short stories

That Night in Volendam

A gift that I’d rather not have

There is no way I can explain to you that would make any sense to me.

His parents took away his hopes and dreams.

His best friend hanged for murder, love of his life suicided, daughter is drug addict, he has no clue why he ended up on his own.

He grants her a wish like a fairy godmother

A bore married man envies an associate’s freedom and sexual encounter.

The unlikely companionship between a pale faced city boy and a sunburned, bearded bush man.

A married man’s guilty conscience stirs up unwanted inner turbulence.

The grand-daughter wants to know what Granny’s dreams were all about, how come they kept her alive?

Can you hear that delicate yet forceful, faint yet intense, slight yet mighty, that sound of the night?