A Room of Her Own and Other Stories

Contents

  1. A Room of Her Own

  2. Giselle

  3. Le Desespoir Est Assis Sur un Banc

  4. Living Simply

  5. Cold January Morning

  6. My Very Own Schlegel

  7. Bridges

  8. Empty Rooms, Empty Chairs

  9. Flight

  10. Laurel Leaves

  11. The Survey

  12. Escape

Genre: Short Stories

A Place to Call Home is a collection of contemporary short stories with Home as a theme, including chance encounters, romance and mysteries.

This compelling collection contains 14 short stories that will appeal to many different moods and in many different circumstances. The stories range from 2,000 words to nearly 10,000.

What does it mean to have a home? What makes a place a home? What if you don’t have a home?

A Room of Her Own: Darleene and Thandiwe were best friends in South Africa. Then Thandiwe disappeared. Darleene won’t stop looking for her.

Le Désespoir Est Assis Sur un Banc: she always sits on the same bench, looking sad. One day she cries, so he stops and talks to her.

Conversation in a Shelter: two people with very different reasons for visiting a seaside shelter.

Boomerang: a treasured book, once lost, turns up again. Where has it been and who has been reading it?

A Place to Call Home: he hasn’t seen Justyna since the old days. She turns up on his doorstep at midnight with a six-year-old son. They need a place to stay, just for one day.

Bridges: two people come to start their lives together on the other side of the bridge. Their new home comes to mean different things to them.

Living Simply: after years of drudgery in a dead-end job he’s going to sell up and use the money to pay for all the things he’s wanted to do for a long time.
Escape: a couple look for ways to leave the rat race, giving up all their possessions and breaking free.A Blast in the Dark: a homeless girl someone meets at a train station and how the encounter plays out.
Flight: the flat was their haven, their flight from the world of sterility and wrong choices.
Empty Rooms: he wasn’t ready for the silence of empty rooms, a loved one gone.
The Fourth Mrs Dalloway: she’s always had money and can’t understand the lives of those who haven’t, until she encounters the desperate and abandoned and learns about the days of the Spike.
La Strada Per La Pensione: two young people travelled a thousand miles to pursue a dream.
Summer Blues: two people share an unexpected summer in a flat one of them was hired to decorate.

The stories .....