Short Story Preview: Last Post – Malcolm Allen
Some years back the committee of my Golfing Society met at the very pleasant Bognor Regis club for a round of golf, a very good lunch and, if we had time afterwards, a short...
Category: Short Story
Short Story Preview: Arms and the Man – Malcolm Allen
After recovering from the wounds that I had sustained in the battle of the Khyber Pass in 1876 I considered my future in the army. My Regiment, the 71st Highland Light Infantry, had been...
Short Story Preview: Travel Time – Malcolm Allen
Fort Eustis, Virginia is a US Army training establishment in the southern state of Virginia. It is colloquially known by the ‘inmates’ by the more descriptive name of Fort Uterus, Vagina. By any standards...
Short Story Preview: Are you Fixed? – Malcolm Allen
Much of the enjoyment of golf is in the expectation: you can do better, you have had a lesson, you finished well last week or you just can’t wait to try out that new...
Short Story Preview: Orphan Alley – Josie Arden
‘Looks like you’ve drawn the short straw!’ my fiancé, Jack, laughed. I groaned. I was telling him about the resident’s meeting at which we’d been given jobs to ensure no more children were killed...
Short Story Preview: Golf on Horseback – Malcolm Allen
Apart from golf, polo is the only game that I know of that has a workable handicap system. I’m referring to polo played with a stick, a ball and a pony and not to...
Short Story Preview: Barking Mad – Josie Arden
From the top landing window, Bob saw the police car stop, siren cut-out, right beneath him, at the front of the flats. They must have seen him enter. He put his bar of chocolate...
Indulge in short stories with Jane
Jane Lockyer Willis is a prolific story teller. Why not get a taste of her short stories at Story Star and then indulge with Tea at the Opalaco (it also makes an ideal gift)....
Short Story Preview: Woken – Sue Hampton
No one saw it coming, apparently. Even Taylor didn’t, not in any 3D sense. Like a dream, the idea held no sequence or shape. It was a Monday in January, which didn’t stop the...
Short Story Preview: A Conversation with a Wine Master – Malcolm Allen
When I was a young man, and that was quite some time ago, I never mentioned that I was a keen golfer to any of the girls whom I dated. You see, unlike today,...