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Below are original short stories for you to read online or download as you wish. Some of these stories are about love; some about passion (see also 'Kingfisher Blue'). There's a humorous short story drama, a story with a twist in the tail, a murder mystery and more. There's romance, horror, suspense, action and humour.

If you are revisiting this site, be sure to check out the new short story 'Advert for Alice!'  and new short story 'Burglars!' which are sequels to  'Temptation'  which many said they liked. You might also like to check out a new short short story vignette called 'Cool Waters'  .

For something more substantial than short stories enjoy Kingfisher Blue my latest FREE romance thriller novella which is set in central London and is about obsessive love with a dash of humor. Also my full length thriller romance novel also FREE 'Sarah's Price', and my other novel 'Unwelcome Paradise' and Holiday to Murder which is a Mystery Novella set in the countryside.

For a distictly out of seasonal flavour, try the story I wrote especially for all the people who haven't received christmas cards from me - which is just about everybody! I hope you enjoy The Christmas Story

Creative writing can raise your spirits and make the sun seem to shine just a little brighter. I hope that you enjoy the stories and are able to find that great feeling too.

Rob

P.S. I never thought I would say this ... Being a very private person who loves nothing better than to settle down with my keyboard and become lost in a private world of stories, it had never occurred to me to keep in touch with my old school pals. Sometimes I wondered where they had all ended up, but then something else would draw my attention and the thought would be gone... When my brother told me my old classmates were registering online in their droves and only a click away, I tried to ignore the thought ... But not for long and now I've just come back from my first reunion with my head packed with stories, impressions and revived happy memories (thankfully, no skeletons!). It's a totally amazing experience that I would not have missed for the world.

 'Sarah's Price'
by R Hopcott    

  'It's not too late to back out. You can turn around and walk away from him".
  "Just forget it - you're committed".
  For the 100th time in that long week, Sarah decided to continue with her plan - but only just. Desperately she wanted to be any where else but on this hill with this man.' 

 'Temptation'
- short story with a twist    

   'How unfaithful is your partner?'
   Alice frowned as the magazine ad caught her attention. Primly, she patted her tightly curled fair hair then self conciously seated her neat figure at the kitchen table of her tiny three bed room semi-detached - and read on..' 

 'Deadly Faction'
- a story to die for    

   Impervious to the pushing and jostling, he'd climb aboard and as he balanced precariously, the crowd would recoil from him. Then, as he talked in his special way, they'd become curious and like snakes fascinated by the charmer, they'd move closer...' 

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 'Forever Flying
Free'   

   There comes a moment in every day when I know I can fly. Then, effortlessly, I am away, light as thistledown, on the balmy early evening breeze ... 

 'Valley of Dreams'
- a rural tale of jealousy     

   'When I returned, they'd both gone .... and it was not until much later in the morning that my wife, Tessa, re-appeared ... alone...'

 

 
'Ghosthouses'
- a ghostly comedy drama    

   'Now come to think of it, I heard of an empty space station feeling lonely the other day and not to mention the growth market for haunting the inside of home computers ......'

 

 'Just the Job'
- eerie goings on   

   'It would have been easy to miss the flash of light. But it caught my eye through a gap in the hedgerow and, once noticed, it just couldn't be ignored.' 

 'Da Capo' - a love story'   

   'I've been propped  against this old trunk far too long. There's a pain in my neck, my joints are stiff and my whole body aches ....'

 

 'Holiday to Murder'   

Alice decides to spend some time away from her husband in the remote and forbidding house where her old school friend has just been murdered. As she delves deeper into the secrets of this small village comunity, danger lurks in every leafy byway ... as well as insistent suiters ...

 'Kingfisher
Blue'

   'Jennifer was with an older man when smitten barman Barry made his pitch - she accepted his offer and opened his eyes to darker side of life in London.'

 'Forgotten Flame'   

   'Looking at Karl's emailed photo made Alice feel she was being unfaithful to her husband all over again'

 

 'The Blooding
of Amelia-Rose'

   is a romance thriller. When Amelia-Rose finds herself without a husband, she retreats to an idyllic country cottage where she discovers strange country customs, dangers and also romance lurking in the valleys and moorlands of Exmoor...
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