This is a collection of the short stories I've written for the Weekend Write-In challenges.
Each story is exactly five hundred words long, except for two which specified one thousand words. From the beginning, I have taken the challenge further, by using interpretations of the prompt that differ, sometimes dramatically, from those that usually come to mind.
- The Fields of Aalsmeer
- Modern Fiction Writing
- The Crush
- The Apprentice Chef
- Inca Astronomy
- Walkabout Meets Layabout
- The Ridge
- A Wee Dram
- Manoeuvres
- Welcome Aboard
- Why Did You Climb?
- Athena
- A Penny for Your Thoughts
- The Road Taken
- The First Bounce
- Yawnder
- The Haggle
- Apollo's Anchorage
- Spinning Donuts
- Acceleration
- Midas Well
- Sadim
- Grandfather
- From Cape Horn
- Toward Safety
- Pas de Deux
- The Harmonica Player
- God is in the Hammerhead Beams
- Charles At Last?
- Battle of the Atlantic
- NaNo Writers
- More NaNo
- Snow Job
- Sint Nicolaas
- A Cooking Lesson
- Sailing Through Patagonia
- Cape Horn Ring
- Zonder Zorg
- The Second-Hand Store
- The Coin Show
- The Doldrums
- Portrait
- Old Dog
- Busing in South America
- Ease the Pain
- An Inventive Busker
- Alibi Bye-Bye
- Snow Day
- Perceptions
- Observations While Sailing
- Poor Me
- Moving Aboard