Ben and Isobel – a Short Story

A story set in the world of my novel A House Divided.
A story set in the world of my novel A House Divided.
Did Baron Von Trap really fall in love with Maria of his own free will or did those pesky nuns have something to do with it? Find out in this comic short story.
Catastrophic floods have devastated England and left Meg’s home underwater. She persuades her son Martin to escape by boat. But after he’s gone, she hears voices downstairs. Looters are looking for money – and her gun. Will Meg survive?
An excerpt from my novel ‘Thicker Than Water’
A couple of weeks ago I went to Sledge Lit, a writer’s festival in Derby. In one of the workshops, we were challenged to write a piece of flash fiction told from the point of view of one of the characters in a bank robbery. I got the robber (yay!).
Here’s the story that resulted.