Oct 13, 20227 Ghostly Short Stories That Won’t Give You NightmaresGhosts and houses go together like Halloween and pumpkins — It’s Halloween — that time of the year when everyone’s thinking of scary stuff, like ghosts and witches and spiders and pumpkins and escaped serial killers banging heads on the roofs of cars. I went looking for ghosts and creepy houses in the short stories I read this week. …Ghosts7 min readGhosts7 min read
Mar 13, 20227 Short Stories About the End of the WorldWould you survive? Would you want to? — Writers have imagined the end of the world as we know it in many different ways. Be it man-made or natural disasters, at one time or another most of us have wondered how, or if, we’d survive. This week’s stories included: someone reminiscing about how things used to be a…Short Story Review6 min readShort Story Review6 min read
Feb 13, 20227 Short Colourful Fiction StoriesColours have their own language and add nuance to stories — There are so many colours and so many stories, there has to be a point at which they intersect. Sure enough, I found seven short stories in which colours played a part. This week’s stories include green lawns, a red coat, a blue apple, Earl Grey tea, a yellow ribbon…Short Story Review5 min readShort Story Review5 min read
Feb 6, 20227 Short Stories About Days of the WeekWhich day is the best? — This week’s stories were about days of the week and included more romance than I’d normally read. There was a sad Sunday, a clever Monday, a Tuesday affair, a ghostly Wednesday, a Thursday misunderstanding, a Friday women’s march, and a regular Saturday trip. These are the stories I read this…Short Story Review6 min readShort Story Review6 min read
Jan 23, 20227 Short Summer Fiction StoriesStories that take place in the summer — I tossed up whether to read summer stories or winter stories this week. I’m sitting here sweltering through a hot summer in Australia, so I considered reading stories set in the cold. …Short Story Review6 min readShort Story Review6 min read
Jan 9, 20227 Short Fiction Stories About DogsDogs are great — This week I read short stories about dogs. Dogs find their way into a lot of fiction and can be good or bad, companions or enemies, protectors or threats, smart or dumb, main characters or side characters or even incidental characters. …Short Story Review4 min readShort Story Review4 min read
Jan 3, 20227 Short Stories About New YearsWhere there’s a beginning, there’s also an end — New year, new beginning, right? But, where there’s a beginning, there also has to be an end. This week I read stories about new years and new beginnings. This week’s stories included two strangers beginning new lives, an unhappy wife, a husband coping with the loss of his wife, a…Short Story Review5 min readShort Story Review5 min read
Dec 25, 20217 Short Christmas Fiction StoriesMerry Christmas, everyone — Although I’m not really a Christmas person, I had no choice but to read Christmas stories this week. This week’s stories included a poor boy doing something thoughtful, a couple struggling to buy each other presents, an unhappy fir tree, a loved one away at war, what Nicholas really thinks…Short Story Review5 min readShort Story Review5 min read
Dec 22, 2021Just Shut Up and ListenListening is such an underrated skill. — Listening is a skill that we take for granted. Most of us think we’re good listeners, but are we really? We all think we’re good drivers, but in the real world, some of us really aren’t. …Listening3 min readListening3 min read
Dec 18, 20217 Short Fiction Stories with Birthdays in ThemBirthdays are great, aren’t they? — A family member had a birthday this week, so I thought it was a good time to read stories that included a birthday. This week’s stories included healing a relationship, a wholesome family birthday, a robot koala, a conversation, a 1 in 150-year event, birthday wishes, and a murder. These…Short Story Review5 min readShort Story Review5 min read
