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Category: Fiction » Anthologies
Category: Fiction » Literary collections » Australian & Oceanian
Published: April 19, 2021
Words: 49,970
Language: Australian English
ISBN: 9781005591762
THE MIRROR
Taking Tea With Ben Hall - By Jennifer Hoff
Thirty-two clever and engaging short stories feature in this latest anthology from Stringybark Stories. Selected from over 240 entries these winning and highly commended tales are wickedly clever, thought-provoking and a rollicking read. From priestly abuse to mysterious creatures in the Yarra River, this collection is sure to challenge and entertain.
Read an excerpt from Jennifer’s story here:
TAKING TEA WITH BEN HALL.
This fickle interlude before moonless nightfall was the dangerous time. Margaret placed the pistol on the kitchen table beside an unlit lamp and settled down to wait. Shadows played over a sideboard stacked with dishes, then darkened around a boot scraper wedged against the door.
In twilight, ...CONTINUE With a sigh, she smoothed folds of muslin over her rounding body and eased a cramp in her foot. At 24, she was not longer carefree Maggie, only daughter of a wealthy thoroughbred fancier, bored and eager to experience the world. Three knocks sounded. Margaret jerked to alertness, grasped the pistol, waited. Three knocks came again. If she opened the door, she risked a £100 fine and imprisonment for aiding a bushranger. ‘Who is it?’ she called. ‘A traveller.’ A male voice—the voice that she longed for and dreaded to hear. With her finger on the trigger, she pushed aside the boot scraper and opened the door on its short chain. ‘Who are you?’ she whispered into darkness.
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Related Categories: Fiction / Romance / Contemporary
Publisher : Beachwalk Press, Inc. (19 February 2021)
Format: Kindle Edition
Language : English
File size : 285 KB
Print length : 133 pages
Content Warning: contains some strong language and sex scenes
THE GIRL WITH THE GREEN HAIR By Judith Johnson
Can Aaron and Sally overcome the doubts and misconceptions that they have about each other?
Both Sally Bradshaw, a professional interpreter, and Aaron Hastings, a wealthy lawyer, are guilty of making wrong assumptions about each other after meeting at a disco bar. Colored wigs, food poisoning, drink spiking with a date-rape drug, and a police lineup only add to their confusion.
...CONTINUE When Sally and some other ladies were out celebrating her cousin’s birthday their drinks were spiked, and Sally wrongly thinks Aaron is one of the men responsible. Meanwhile, he assumes she’s a prostitute after the suggestive way she danced with him, and the fact that she almost immediately gave him—a virtual stranger—her address with an invitation to visit.
For some odd reason, their paths continue to cross. And even though neither one of them particularly likes the other, they both feel a strong attraction. But it may be an attraction they’re not able to explore, because to add to this dilemma, they’re both involved with other people.
SOLD OUT By Ruth Morgan
When Damien Innes is shot by the man he once loved, his life heads in a new direction. Betrayed, his colleague murdered, as he recovers his considers his future.
...Damien Innes could feel the wooden floor beneath him. The smell of blood filled his nostrils.His heart was pounding. He couldn’t feel his legs.
“Another flashback?” a voice asked.
Damien opened his eyes and looked around him, dragging his thoughts into the present. He could feel the
armrests of the chair, the cane resting against his thigh...
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Category: Crime Romance
Published: Feb 05, 2020
Publisher: Underground Writers Issue 29: Romance
Language: English
BEWARE MY FOOLISH HEART By Judith Johnson
Can their love overcome their disillusionment with marriage?
When Patric Delmonto, a wealthy Formula One driver, meets Staci Yates at a concert, he's intrigued by the beautiful woman. However, a brief flirtation is all he can indulge in. Although his disastrous marriage has been over for many years, he's still legally tied to his drug-addicted wife. Patric is challenged when the flirtation with Staci grows into something more, and he knows that the time has come for him to finally get a divorce.
...CONTINUE Will their love be strong enough to overcome their past traumas?
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Related Categories: Fiction / Romance / Contemporary
Publisher: Beachwalk Press/Inc.
Published: 2020
Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 371 KB
E-book: 270 pages
Language: English
Content Warning: contains sensual love scenes
JUST IMAGINE: Short Stories
This is a wonderful collection of short fiction by various authors. Love and betrayal. The stories are about human emotion and life.
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Category: Fiction & Literature
Published: Feb 26, 2014
Publisher: Lulu.com
Seller: Lulu Enterprises, Inc.
Print Length: 199 Pages
Language: English
PEARLS OF THE PAST By Judith Johnson
Secrets of the past weave mystical déjà vu that could determine Corrie and Britt's future.
Corrie Nelson is on a mission. For her beloved grandfather's ninety-fifth birthday she wants to create a memory album about the time he spent on Endeavour Island as a young man. She reaches out to Arafura Enterprises—a local company that seems to be involved in everything that occurs on the island—hopeful that they can provide her with assistance. When Corrie arrives at Endeavour Island she experiences an overwhelming sense of déjà vu....CONTINUE Britt Hendricks is the owner of Arafura Enterprises. When he's introduced to Corrie somehow he knows her, although they've never met. He can't understand why she doesn't experience the same deep feeling of recognition, and he becomes frustrated, initially refusing to provide the assistance she has requested. Finally accepting that he's smitten, he makes amends and offers to help her in her quest. And maybe in the process he can win the beautiful woman over and explore this undeniable attraction. But when they discover family secrets that date back to their great-great-grandparents, it might destroy everything, including their fragile, new relationship.
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Related Categories: Fiction / Romance / Contemporary
Publisher: Beachwalk Press/Inc.
Published: 2018
E-book: 256 pages
Language: English
Content Warning: contains mild language and sex scenes
POSTCARD FROM KA'ANAPALI By Jennifer Hoff
1913. Arabella Syme's dream holiday in the Hawaiian Islands is becoming a nightmare. Her brother is behaving strangely, and her romance with charismatic hotelier, Gabriel Kana, threatens to break her heart. Gabriel Kana, the owner of exclusive Attworth House on Maui, is preoccupied by the garrotting of a local ferry captain, and hotel guests are terrified of a visiting yacht and its mysterious owner Jacob Mort. Arabella's brother disappears. ...CONTINUE
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Related Categories: Fiction / Romance / Historical
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: July 21, 2015
Paperback: 256
Trim Size: 6" x 9"
Language: English
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HACKETT's CHASE By Mary Warwick
Excerpt from: HACKETT'S CHASE
THE snick-snick of the scissors and the deep, burbling laughter of the fat man in the barber’s chair faded from Andy Hackett’s consciousness. Oblivious to the buzzing of blowflies in the window and the rumbling of cattle trucks that shook the building in their passing, his concentration was focused entirely on the magazine he had so casually snatched from the chair before sitting down to wait.
...CONTINUE
In two decades not a single day had passed that he hadn’t thought about her. He studied the photograph. Her hair was shorter than he remembered, and her clothes - there was an expensive elegance about them - and her eyes were different. Eyes that had sparkled with laughter so long ago now stared at him, not empty, but brimming over with sadness and hurt. She was so different, yet there was no doubt.
‘Alex.’ He whispered her name on a sigh. Twenty years had passed, true, but his first thoughts every morning and the last every night had been of her. Every time he thought of her he had kicked himself, told himself what an idiot he had been, but it made no difference. She married the bastard, anyway. Quickly, noisily, he rustled the pages of the inside-out publication until he located the cover, keeping his thumb in the place. There was the date: June 4th, just two weeks ago.
The fat man stood and the barber shook the cape, took up his broom and swept away the dark brown wisps of hair that littered the black and white vinyl floor.
‘Next!’
CROSSWIND By Mary Warwick
Exerpt from: CROSSWIND
The R & M Fuel Supplies representative shook his head and reflections of parked aircraft slid back and forth on his wrap-around shades. Despite his small stature the man had an indefinable presence, a hint of power.
‘Sorry mate, I can’t help you...’ He didn’t look sorry, shrugging his shoulders and spreading his hands, palms upward....CONTINUE ‘But you’ve always let me have fuel in the past...’ Brathens protested with ill-concealed exasperation. ‘What about my car? It must be worth a bit.’ He tossed a bunch of keys in the air and caught them easily in his long, thin fingers. ‘That rust-bucket? Ha!’ The R & M Fuel rep’s voice rose an octave and the reflections zig-zagged again. ‘I’d have to pay to get it towed away! No way, Mister Brathens! Look, I’ve gone out on a limb for you. If the area manager finds out how much you owe us he’ll have my balls!’ ‘Is that your last word?’ Brathens glared from beneath lowered silver-grey eyebrows, his pale blue eyes narrowed. ‘It is.’ A small sniff added finality to the words and his wide, frog-like mouth snapped shut. Brathens muttered an obscenity and turned on his heel. Head down, and with his fists rammed deeply in the pockets of his faded jeans, he walked back to the hangar.
Published by Elmtree, Canada, as an audiobook.
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