Broad Shorts: Thirteen ‘Gentle’ Sci-Fi Short Stories
Suitable for ages 13+, 85 pages
Launch date: 31 March 2026
A gentle introduction to sci-fi—speculative but with heart.
In What Was Lost, a dingo disappears into the Australian outback, leaving behind a trail of questions. A time-travelling consultant sabotages his client’s love life—thirty years earlier. And in One Last Adventure, two young friends stand at the edge of goodbye, daring to imagine what comes next.
Quirky, heartfelt, and speculative in the softest of ways, Broad Shorts explores turning points that are strangely familiar. Each story experiments with endings—where futures remain hopeful, drama stays human, and wonder lingers long after the final page.
Motifs:
- The Loyal Key: Objects, Coming home, Loyalty.
- The Filthy Teatowel: Intergenerational, Objects, Memories.
- Freedom: Objects, Transformation, Shapeshifter.
- New Branch: Family, Time travel.
- Storm: Dog, Shifting fortunes, Loyalty.
- Hierarchical Ambition: Career scientist, Loyalty, Poker-face.
- No Longer Brave: Haircut, Confidence.
- TherA: AI, Therapist, Schizophrenia.
- Digital Air: Curing pain, Future Earth.
- What Was Lost: Dingo, Fear, Shifting Fortunes.
- Terrarist: Climate change, Terraforming, Future Earth, Time Dilation.
- Sebastian’s Sabotage: Time travel, Shifting fortunes.
- One Last Adventure: Neural lace, Museum, Future Earth, Dog.
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Also available in eBook, audiobook, print-on-demand, in bookstores, cafes and libraries; links below.
eBook: Kindle eBook / Google Play Books / Smashwords
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Audiobook: (coming soon) UBL
Print-on-demand: (coming soon)
Bookstores (signed copies, coming soon): Better Read Than Dead, Newtown (dog-friendly!) / LYOX Gallery Shop, Drummoyne (dog-friendly!)
Events: Sydney Authors Inked: Writers at the Pub (July 2026)
Cafes: (coming soon) Double Dose Croydon (AU).
Libraries: (coming soon) Inner West Libraries (AU), National Library of Australia.
Not at your library? Please consider requesting your library to obtain a copy!
Listing services: Australian Book Lovers
USA customers: I am not shipping signed copies to the USA at the moment. Please feel free to purchase an ebook, print-on-demand book or audiobook.