Fine Work – FFfAW

20 Jan 201620 Jan 2016

Take a stroll down Lullaby Lane and Call on Mrs Gwendoline Jones. She spends her days unpicking realities and re-stitching them into dreams. Every evening she can be found, needle…

Haste Makes Waste

18 Jan 201618 Jan 2016

Barbara could not resist “Motto” ware, so when she heard of a particularly good example appearing in the window of Isinglass and Snood’s Antiques she naturally hurried to gain the…

Short Story – Larrkardiy (boab)

9 Jan 20169 Jan 2016

  Prologue For the Aboriginal people Larrkardiy always had a special strength and power. The dreamtime stories tell that this power had made the trees so arrogant that at last God…

The Lowenbrau and the Death Star

29 Dec 201529 Dec 2015

Little Wendy, Grandmamma and Grandpappa Lowenbrau,The Danger Twins, Great Aunt Eunice and Mother wandered about the Agricultural fair, Little Wendy clutching the huge carton of mango and raisin yoghurt she…

Gift of Memory

23 Dec 201523 Dec 2015

Waking early Christmas morning, Madame Quenelle set the table and put a cracker by the plate. A trip to the bakery for a baguette and then delicious odours of roasting…

A Lowenbrau Christmas

16 Dec 201516 Dec 2015

“Here, try this.” Great Aunt Eunice handed Grandpappa a glass of her “famous” egg-nog. Grandpappa sipped appreciatively…egg, cream, and equal parts rum and “Dr Macreedy’s Horse Liniment”. “Delicious!” he sighed…

Driving Lesson-A Lowenbrau Tale

10 Nov 201510 Nov 2015

Grandmamma and Grandpapa Lowenbrau, Little Wendy, and Great Aunt Eunice sat in the back seat of the 1975 Chevrolet Caprice. “Bertie” the Danger Twin and Mother were in the front about…

The Code of the Lowenbrau

3 Nov 20153 Nov 2015

Did the pedestal of this statue in Versailles house the Holy Grail? ...O... It's Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers time again and the Lowenbraus are at it again! Hope you…

Imports FFfAW

13 Oct 201513 Oct 2015

Chesney! Oh Chesney dear wake up! What is it Barbara? I think we’ve stopped. Diddums, how many times have it told you to stop saying that? But I really think…

It’s Behind You!

7 Oct 20157 Oct 2015

It's Flash Fiction time again with stories 175 words and less! The photo prompt is of a theatre and so, I find that this is time to tell the 175…

A Tragic Affair – 50 Word Story

22 Sep 201523 Sep 2015

Car. Sirens. Him, upside down. Her...vanished. The cliff. A light, far away. Her voice…too faint. A marriage, a mortgage, credit cards, debt…unemployment. A gun. A robbery. A high speed car…

A Family Portrait

10 Sep 201510 Sep 2015

While the storm raged outside, the little family lived in their little world. Granny sat contentedly in the squashy armchair, deftly crocheting brightly coloured woollen squares from remnants of wool,…

Illegal Aliens!

1 Sep 2015

Thanks to Louise from The Story Teller's Abode for supplying the photo prompt for this weeks Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers prompt. I hope you enjoy the 175 word long…

Ping Back – A Lowenbrau Story

25 Aug 201528 Aug 2015

Grandmamma and Grandpapa Lowenbrau, Mother, Little Wendy, and the “Danger twins” stared in horror. “Eunice, I strictly forbid it!” Great Aunt Eunice was recalcitrant. “If you do this Eunice I…

The Black-Eyed Doll. A fable

18 Aug 201518 Aug 2015

There once was a doll on a stick at a carnival stall. She lived with her sisters in a bucket until they were bought, one by one, for delighted children…