I am a professional brand and content marketer with 20+ years of marketing management experience. In my spare time, I love to write short stories. Read on to find links to published stories and summaries of work in progress.
More about me can be found in my author bio.
Stories
Well-being
Published by Every Day Fiction, click here to read.
A short story centred around heavily pregnant Sally’s daily walk, via an ancient well storied to have healing waters, which takes an unexpected twist.
Arm’s length
Published by Fairlight Books, click here to read.
Ex-pro swimmer, Leah, helps a young girl overcome her fear of water and learn to swim. In doing so, Leah moves away from swimming in her own grief at being newly bereaved.
Hammered
Published by Fairlight Books, click here to read.
Chloe is addicted to buying shoes, whilst inadvertently making colleagues redundant. Jon, now redundant, is increasingly escaping into alcoholism. Their stories start to overlap as they tackle their lockdown demons.
Dress code
While her husband, Tom, is recovering from a major operation, a mix-up at the dry cleaners leads to an unexpected day trip with nostalgia for middle-aged Beth.
Love grows here
Gemma is navigating motherhood in a digital world; as fast as her love for her boy, Jayden, grows so too do her fears for him finding a love of his own when he spends so much time online. This is a story of how love somehow does still grow, despite phone addictions and the pervasion of technology in our lives.
Sweet daisies
A short story told through the eyes of seven-year-old Leila as her family emigrates from England to Iran in search of a fresh start in the late 1970s. We see Leila struggling to understand her mixed race identity, experiencing hints of racism and coping with being uprooted to live in a different culture at a time of great political unrest.
French kiss
Lucille has moved from Paris to London to study, have fun and find romance. It’s not quite working out as she’d imagined and so she looks for signs to reassure herself. It’s when she’s not looking that good fortune starts to turn more her way.
Catch
Holly has been grieving Jane’s friendship, abruptly lost after her wedding day. Several years later, she’s still angry about the lack of explanation, but when she finally gets the chance to confront Jane it’s not at all what she was expecting. A story about life events that test friendships, even the best ones.
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