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A collection of short stories written between 1999 - 2012

sailing boat

Postcards from Greece

All he wanted was to get away from a broken heart...

Jez travels to Greece to spend a week on a sailing yacht cruising the Greek islands, but when he meets his Greek skipper, he has yet to realise that he's about to face more than he bargained for.

Romance / 43 pages / 2012

Spectrum

SPECTRUM

What is the Spectrum, and how can love shine eternal beyond the veil?

A woman looks back on a life full of love and considers the question of life, the multiverse, love and everything.

Inspired by a song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz6ri7wVS-Q&feature=related

Sci-fi-fantasy fiction / 22 pages / December 2011

5 star ranking - trigger street labs

mirror

REFLECTIONS

It looked just like an ordinary antique mirror, but Caroline's life was about to change...

One day, Caroline goes into a dusty antique shop and buys a mirror. Little does she know that from that moment on, her fate has been inexplicably altered, and only she has the power to decide her true path...

Fantasy fiction / 14 pages / 2000

 

The lover

THE LOVER

She was married; he was lonely, but neither was quite what the other expected.

George meets Claudia one day in a games room during his lunch break, playing chess. She sweeps him off his feet with her charm and humour. But who is she, and how will it all end?

Fantasy -romance / 7 pages / 2000

Demeter and Persephone

DEMETER AND PERSEPHONE

When her daughter was taken from her, she forced the earth to live in winter's shadow...

When Demeter leaves her home in Greece to travel in Europe, little does she know that she has set in motion a cycle of events that will determine her own daughter’s future path…

Adventure - romance / 10 pages / 2000

the dining room

THE DINING ROOM

All they'd wanted was a weekend break.

Romance, folly, indescretion and lust, and all before the first course is served.

Humour - romance / 9 pages / 1999 (rewritten March 2012)

THE SONG

THE SONG (v.2)

Ana knew she would find complete enlightenment only by letting the Song pass right through her.

Ana knew that the only way she would find complete enlightenment was to journey to the source of the Song and let it pass right through her.
Read 'info' notes after the story if you want some background.

Sci-fi fantasy / 11 pages / 1999

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All stories by Francesca Amalia Madeline Mansfield

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