If you love short stories, a quick read for the commute, lunch breaks, tea breaks, or those moments when you just need to be transported to another world for a little while, you’ve come to the right place.
Life is too short not to explore, and that’s what Petra loves to do: explore scenarios, characters, situations, challenges — usually with humour, always with entertainment in mind. We all love to be entertained, don’t we?
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In the meantime, please take a look at the short story books below. They are fun, dramatic, and designed to make you think.
When the great Coronavirus pandemic of 2020 forced good people of the world to self isolate for months, normal behaviour became suppressed. Sexual appetites and deviation came to the fore; hours shut behind closed doors, with little but televisions and the Internet to amuse them, caused carnal and psychological desires to grow. They took shape in forms never seen before. Perfectly upstanding members of communities, everyday folk who considered themselves straightforward in their desires, found their imaginations increasing and morphing in ways they could never have imagined before the virus struck. With time on their hands and minds, creativity took fun, sometimes bizarre, sometimes curious, sometimes just plain weird effect. This is what happens when you shut a society away, which is used to every kind of freedom. These are the Isolation Sex Stories.
A difficult day turns into a nightmare when Jayne Patchett returns home to find her house occupied by Romanian gypsies.
The irony of the situation isn’t lost on Jayne, who works in immigration. She is used to dealing with illegal immigrants at work but when she finds them sitting at her dining room table, drinking her wine, eating her food and wearing her clothes, her reaction surprises even herself.
Sequel to The Eight of Swords
If you have something special belonging to someone else, what happens when they want it back?
Eighteen years have passed since a family of Romanian gypsies invaded Jayne Patchett’s house. In that time her life has changed remarkably, she is a successful artist, happily in love, living in an idyllic country cottage. But all those years ago, one of the gypsies gave her a lucky pouch, the putsi. Now, one of them wants it back. Drama returns to Jayne’s life as secrets are unveiled and she begins to wonder who she can trust.
Petra Kidd Writes... 