Nomesque Fiction

Nomesque Fiction is a collection of fictional short stories. Many of them belong to a series, and updates on selected series are added once or twice a week, as well as standalone short stories being added occasionally. Chaotic? Maybe. Fun? Always! 🙂

Update

Sorry, folks, it’s been dead as a doornail around here lately. On the bright side, it’s because I’m writing too much, not too little. I’m 20 000 words into Maisy May, and I’m going back and forth along the storyline so much that any attempt to post instalments is likely to suck. I think it’s close to finished – I’ll update soon 🙂

About the Stories

 

Life in a Fairytale

Classic western fairytale (prince, princess, frogs, fairy godmothers and the like) meets modern day reality head on. We have a princess flashing her butt to win the heart of her peasant admirer, a kitten causing outrage at the local hospital – and of course, the traditional frog prince. Sounds girly and wussy? Check it out, you might be pleasantly surprised.

 

Modern Fables

These are individual stories and, like all good fables, each has a moral. Juliette and the Beast has to be my favourite out of the lot. It’s about an abusive relationship, and what one woman puts up with because she thinks she should.
 

Alien Encounters

Silly little sci-fi series about a woman who blogs complete lies, and makes money from the advertising, because lots of people read her blogs and sympathise, or get excited for her, etc. Then she gets kidnapped by aliens – and she can’t breathe a word.
 

Peter Pan Revisited

This series is NOT light and fluffy. Drugs, gangs, swearing, murder attempts, bad jokes. It’s about a guy who refuses to grow up, and the woman who’s committed to helping him out of his messes.
 

Computer Blue

The future earth is REALLY crowded. So the government encourages its citizens to suicide to free up space for others. But suicide doesn’t mean you’re really dead…
 

Lucky Me

Contributed by the talented Brian A Lynch. A woman wakes up in a new life, with caring flatmates but zero memories. Just some lightning-fast reflexes and some weird flashbacks.
 

Spirit Guide

Paranormal fiction? A teen girl is suddenly convinced that Heath Ledger speaks to her from beyond the grave… and that he’s been assigned as her spirit guide.
 

Maisy May

Maisy is a teen girl who, despite her cutesy name, has definite emo tendencies. She meets a boy named Mark – on the outside your perfect Christian boy. How do you find out who you really are while putting up a perfect front?
 

Deadish

Linda is dead. She’s kinda peeved about that. What’s more, she seems stuck in ghost form. She’s obsessed with finding her body, but that’s a little harder than it sounds. So she resorts to taking creative, vicious revenge on her killer until he spills the beans. Dark, and possibly confronting in places, but hilarious in others.

 

Dropbear

Australia’s marsupial population has turned vicious overnight. Koalas are biting the hands that feed them, possums have developed a taste for blood, and the dogs and cats are considering staying in at night. Is a mystery virus to blame?

Navigation

A link to each of the stories on Nomesque Fiction can be found on the left side of the page. They’re arranged by series. Some, but not all, contain links to the previous and next stories in the series. This bit is a work in progress – eventually all stories will be provided with simple navigation links like this.

Authors

The vast majority of work on this site is mine. The only exceptions, currently, are the Lucky Me stories – written by Brian A Lynch.

Subscribing

If you’d like to read each new story as it’s published, you might want to subscribe. Subscription is completely free. The links to do so are on the right, under Subscribe!. Click on the big red button to subscribe via a feed reader. Subscribing via a reader requires you to have an account with a feed reader of some description. Sounds technical, but it’s simply a program or website which keeps an eye on your favourite blogs and displays any new posts for you. A good choice if you regularly visit a number of blogs looking for updates.Google Reader is one of the most common, and if you already have a Google or Gmail account, it’s even easier to set up. Another option is to subscribe via email – this will mean that each new story will be delivered to your email inbox.

Commenting

I like to receive comments on these stories – even if they’re negative. All I ask is that you make your criticism constructive. Comment via the Leave a Reply box at the bottom of each story, or use the Contact Me page if you want to comment privately.

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