Fast Fiction Podcasts

Cindy's brief visit with her ageing brother provides a few frustrations and surprises.

For the last couple of months, Henry Simpson has been an inpatient at a state-run establishment where he has been following a compulsory course of treatment designed to correct certain unacceptable aspects of his behaviour and speech. His progress is assessed every Friday by the resident psychiatrist. However, this Friday, the assessment doesn't go at all as planned…

Sylvia is a lonely widow with little more than her writing to enthuse her, but sadly her books gain little attention or readers. And then she gets a companion, and suddenly her life is full and her literary expectations soar, because......? Well, listen in, and work it out yourself.

1895 was a year of gentility, etiquette and protocol. It was better to be rich than poor, and even better to be VERY rich. Unless you were a woman.

Two women meet under strange circumstances and find that both their lives can be traced back to a common bond. The ending has a message for all of us.