Christmas is on it's way - a time of snow and cold and..............nope not happening here!! Christmas is hot, hot, hot - holidays, beaches and romance! This will be a series of short stories based on writing prompts and featuring different actors/characters and genres from humour to romance, a bit of the hot stuff and a few surprises.…
IN fifth century Dal Riada, a Kingdom straddling areas of both Ireland and Scotland, Sister Enat of the order of the Green Mountain is a rare breed. It's a time when women are confined to the house and even those of religious orders are sheltered from the written word - but Enat is a woman of letters. A powerful woman in a man's world, her life's course set out before her. And then her future is turned upside down by the will of the goddess, she must find a way to protect her future and the lives of those closest to her including the man she is forbidden to love. And all the while she must also protect the past and the stories of people.…
In a stark and unforgiving land. In a dark and unforgiving time taking the Higher Ground has unexpected consequences. A story of Vikings, mysterious brown eyes and truth of conviction. A story (maybe a novel eventually) inspired by reading too much history and seriously watching way too much Eurovision and World Cup soccer.…
Twenty-something fledgling fashion designer Nia Walker is spicy-brained, foul-mouthed and tough. Well, that's what she'd have you believe. Really, she's just trying to survive living in a world peopled by equally colourful characters - from her secret slightly loopy Scottish fashion doyen grandmother, to her purple-haired godmother and her fashion-forward, permanently glittered and smokey-eyed rock god, fashion-model connoisseur best friend Matty "Nia darling it's Mathieu" Wifman. The pair finish each other's sentences, he loves more feminine clothes - Nia has never met a pair of tartan pants she didn't buy or make, and they've been friends forever (if forever is six years). But when Mathieu meets the supermodel of his dreams Nia starts to realise things are going to change forever and it's time to stop playing around and work out what she really wants to do with her life.…
Not every part of the world celebrates a cold Christmas - in the southern hemisphere things are hot and steamy. And this Christmas they could end up being hotter and more steamy than reclusive artist Megan ever expected.For Ronald John - Dementia is a biatch.…
THEY met in a café - as people do. The actor and the waitress. The writer and the aging man-child. Then they changed each other's lives.…
FREYA McTavish figures her last chance for love, romance or even sex just drove out of her one-horse town in a Porche filled with stinky seafood. Life in a small town is getting her down, everyone knows what everyone else is doing, usually before she does and that's frustrating for a journalist. But maybe there are more secrets in her country town than Freya realises and maybe there are some she's even keeping from herself. Luckily she has some pretty loyal friends who will help her negotiate the mindfield of small papers, council and maybe even love.…
Lost and broken when her life plans disintegrate before they really begin, 20 something Lydia Campbell heads back to the only place that has ever felt like home, back to her crazy aunt, and a hidden valley. Back to magical creatures and the seemingly indomitable Country Witches Association hidden from the rest of the world for generations. Back for a chance at love and to fulfill a date with destiny she didn't even know she was keeping.…
AT 35 eminent Shakespeare historian Sarah Huntington was in a good place even if she did say so herself. Nice house in a fashionable London suburb, flat in Stratford, her dream job, two degrees, doctorate and a nice collection of close friends, hell she even had a gig on television. But a long forgotten pact with an old friend comes back to haunt her when one drunken night changes Sarah's comfortable existence forever. Now she's heading down a path she jokingly talked about but never really thought would happen and wondering if you can really have it all even if the one thing you really want is missing! Dane Hilditch is on the cusp of becoming one of the biggest actors in the world and in line to win some of the most prestigious awards going - in short - he has the world at his feet - why then does he feel like life is passing him by?…
They were from different sides of the planet, different worlds. Both with secrets, baggage and mistakes that could destroy them. He was an actor - a matinee idol to millions, she was a journalist damaged by life. They found each other on the great train of life but in the twisting, turning, changing journey can they stay there together or will they forced off at different stations.…
Newly minted teacher Poppy Fraser is starting a new life - she just didn't expect it would be in such an alien place where football is the main religion and anything else is just not worth knowing about. Joel Hardy has been trying to escape his family legacy all his life but it just keeps pulling him back. Together they might just find a way forward for themselves, the town and the local team - maybe.…
Tom and Melody have built a life together - three kids and a dog in a big old house in Essex but when Tom's career hits a resurgence and he starts to put his career first, their perfect world starts to fall apart. In s desperate fight to save her own sanity Mels leaves and Tom must work to keep his marriage alive and learn to raise three rambunctious girls.…
Loki the Norse God of Mischief is missing and there is only one man for the job and she's a woman - the 13th Doctor! When work on the new railway uncovers a mysterious glowing stone and then villagers of the small Cheshire town of Cranford start disappearing Loki and The Doctor must team up in 1844 and go undercover to solve the mystery before more villagers disappear and the whole world implodes. This is a tale of time travel, mischief, intrigue, and corsetry!!…
This is my entry in the #Plastic or Planet competition for National Geographic. To me, this is why we need to reduce and reuse. This is also a tribute to the amazing Ian Kiernan who sailed around the world a few times and saw what we were doing to our planet. He founded a movement called "Cleanup Australia" - We lost this amazing man this week but hopefully more will take his place!!It is just a small story inspired by the many threads I have had to mod on our community facebook group complaining about introducing bans on bags, coffee lids and straws.…
WATTPAD FEATURED - VICTORIA Elizabeth Francis Diana the world knows her as Princess Victoria of Wales, her family call her Vicky - Queen Victoria jokes are prevalent. She's a reluctant fairytale princess more intent on saving the world and living a normal life than living out the fantasy of what a princess is. Instead Tory is a Doctor and a woman, a woman just wanting to be loved. But mostly she just wants to be Tory, living a private life away from the glare that led to her mother's death. She doesn't want beautiful dresses (well she has a thing for McQueen) or to live in a castle (but Kensington is passable) and if she did happen to find the perfect man? Well he wouldn't be a prince just an ordinary guy she doesn't have to share with the world. A man like her best friend's brother -Tom Hiddleston -her school girl crush. Problem is Tom isn't anonymous anymore - in fact in the eyes of the world he's the perfect Disney Prince - but is he perfect for the real thing?…
Tom has his princess and that's no fairytale. They're living happily ever after but what happened in the two and a half years between their first public date and their trip to Africa? Here's a few one-shot windows into their lives (because I couldn't say goodbye just yet). - Thanks to the amazing Twiddles_ for another brilliant cover.…
Caitlin Errikkson is an actress on the cusp of breaking big but her first visit to Australian Televisions night of nights - The Logies - doesn't go as planned when she meets the ultimate in tall, dark and handsome. A man who is from so far away that it's out of this world, a man who has the potential to change not just her life but that of her family. You see her dad Tony has a secret, one the outback doctor has been keeping for a long time, one that tall, dark and smart-arsed is about to reveal, one that will take her to another world.........................The planet of Asgard.…