Protected: The Meeting
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Protected: Trimerus
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The Pomegranate
The Pomegranate In the original draft of “Death and the Poet”, I had dreamed up a highly dubious plotline which involved Ovid travelling in disguise from Tomis, while still in exile there. Yes, I know, it was never going to work! But I did enjoy introducing Ovid’s mother-in-law Sulpicia to the story and one of […]
Trial and Tribulation: a Lucius Sestius short story
Lucius stood in the middle of his father’s study and lifted his chin. “Too high,” said Cicero. “You mustn’t look defiant or arrogant, especially not at your age. A little lower – yes! That’s right.” Lucius tried to memorise his exact stance, though he did wish his new toga wouldn’t keep sliding off his shoulder. […]
Flighty Aphrodite
Flighty Aphrodite or Goddesses Behaving Badly From Homer’s Iliad, Book 14:But when she had clothed herself in all this finery, Hera left her room and beckoned Aphrodite away from the other gods, saying, “I wonder if I can persuade you in what I say, dear child? Or are you still angered in your heart because […]
Don’t eat the figs
I had prepared for this moment and in my head was a list of the things I must now do. I rose with the first, carefully-thought-out speech, on my lips – “May the gods receive my husband the Emperor Augustus into the place they have surely prepared for him” – when I realised that Ceryllus had actually said the wrong name.
Triumphs and Tragedies
“Triumphs and Tragedies” is an anthology of short stories on a Roman theme. Authors like Derek Birks and Peter Tonkin have contributed, and it includes my own Lucius Sestius story, “Blood Money”, and is on the Kindle Unlimited scheme.
Calpurnia waits – a short story
I am a widow, but I still must wait a few more days.
Fowl Play
I woke up one morning with an idea for a short story. I drafted it out, and thought it would work, but I needed to check one thing. Did human flesh keep an impression of something that hit it?
“Hunter’s Revenge”
How appropriate that “Hunter’s Revenge” should be published on St Andrew’s Day, for it is whole-heartedly and gloriously Scottish.
