Story Stand
words from the wondering imagination
Sappho and the Mountain Hare ®️ fiction offers an eclectic and genre free read. I hope you enjoy the stories. New fiction is created regularly so please come back soon. A few open access shorts stories are available to read online. My latest short story, The Favourite, is published in the Boudin (of the McNeese Review).
The Waterline is an eclectic mix of eight short stories with mental themes. Each piece is written in a style to suit its theme, exploring diverse mental states including dementia. Styles vary from humour to magical realism to psychological. For the music lover, Harry Blackfield has a little trail of easter eggs to find… Every mind sails along by deep shores and we only see what is above the waterline.
A partly fictional and partly autobiographical journey through time, space, and emotions. Belong explores an experience of loss and grief, and just how precious time and love are.
For Stacey, a firecracker that still lights up our lives. Lost to cancer far too young.
An exploration of our connection and disassociation with the natural world and our own latent ecology. A day in the life type exploration that reflects our desires to be both part of and apart from the mechanical human world, and the uncontrollable but innately connected natural world.
An empathic exploration of the planet’s demise acknowledging that we do indeed share this world. We are not alone. The planet is changing in many ways due to anthropogenic forces. Where will it end? What of our fellow-creatures? What of us?
Captured by the romantic ideal of our time, being elsewhere and elsewise, our guide tumbles through a not quite midlife crisis into a not quite gypsy caravan to embark on a Spanish literary quest. Travelling through Spain we glimpse the world through the people she meets from civil war to the modern surf culture. An entanglement of literature, love, and destinies where objects in the rear-view mirror are closer than they appear.