by N1c0la-admin | Aug 9, 2021 | Personal Thoughts
I am a person with just a touch of a flair for chaos and crisis. Not a comfortable fact to swallow for an ex-scientist who found her security in the clear evidence-based logic of scientific thought. As it turns out, at least part of that flair for chaos and crisis has...
by N1c0la-admin | Aug 9, 2021 | Personal Thoughts
If you have read the summaries and extracts of the first two books in my Transitions series, which you can read on this site, then you will probably have gathered that fractured families are often at the core of my writing. This isn’t simply because I have a taste for...
by N1c0la-admin | Aug 9, 2021 | Book Extracts
Extract From Chapter 1 Geoff and Megan started the weekend with a leisurely dawdle around the kitchen table. They could probably have spread out the newspapers and letters more comfortably on the big old dining room table, but there was something intimate and...
by N1c0la-admin | Aug 9, 2021 | Book Extracts
Chapter 1 The final year teachers of the local high school in the coastal town of Port Shepstone faced one another around the conference table in the principal’s office. The meeting, chaired by Principal Angela Harding, had been called towards the end of the...
by N1c0la-admin | Aug 9, 2021 | Short Stories
For Robert This is a story I wrote for my adoptive son, Robert, when he was about 9 years old. He came to us at age 6, with a heart already protected by a hard shell, one that he used to make him impenetrable to the risks of warmth, affection trust. It was a shell...
