It’s been a while since we’ve had a short story but I couldn’t resist writing this one. It was inspired when a book blogger mentioned domestic disasters, and one of the group responded with their true story. There might have been a tiny bit of embellishment to protect the innocent, but I’ll leave you to …
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Turn the Tables – Steph Warren
Book bloggers are invaluable to authors and help to get our books known, make recommendations for future reading and are generally supportive without any compensation except our heartfelt thanks. They often feature authors on their blogs and it suddenly occurred to me, it might be nice to 'turn the tables' and actually feature book bloggers …
Book Fair – finale
What have Eurovision, a psychiatrist, children’s story time, an ancient house, losing your job, stables, a pub that wasn’t a pub, a ceremonial chain and a hairdresser’s in Penge got in common? The answer is the book event I organised at the end of August, which was a great success. The weather stayed dry and …
Alderslay birthday and Beckenham Book Fair
Facebook has just reminded me my last book ‘Alderslay’ has a first birthday due. Where does the time go? Actually it’s older than that as I wrote the original draft some five years ago. At that time it was under a different name, but once it had been edited, I made some amendments and then …
The Murder of John Smith Part 3
The final part of my short story. I hope you enjoyed it. It didn’t take Pam long to realise she had made the worst mistake of her life. At first she thought it was because she was used to being on her own, and she only needed time to adapt to being half of a …
The Murder of John Smith. Part 2
I thought it would be a quick short story to fill in a gap while I was working on my next book and organising the local book fair, but it seems to have taken on a mind of its own, so don’t be surprised if it ends up as part of a book. It’s actually …
Beckenham book event and The Murder of John Smith
Most of this week has been taken up with organising a book fair for the end of the month in our local area of South London. I assumed once the venue and authors were in place it would be a case of sending out regular generic updates to keep everyone informed, and turning up on …
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Water company saga
It’s been a bit crazy with laptop and connection problems, not to mention the unusual weather, but I hope you’ve been enjoying the short stories and feel encouraged to check out my various books on Amazonhttps://author.to/ValPortelli Something totally different for this week, which involves a few moans and digs at customer service but is actually …
Time traveller Part 3
The final part of the short story where the couple have arrived in what is the lady’s present time, but the young man’s future. At first it was hard to take in what my eyes were trying to show me and I thought they were still blurred from our trip; either that or I was …
Time Traveller Part 2
The story so far: A man notices a rather peculiar young lady in distress. He helps her find what she needs in a hardware shop then she promptly disappears from under his nose. Leaving the shop, I looked up and down the street in case she had slipped out without me noticing. No sign of …
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