Resolutions: More short tales from the Sussex Border and elsewhere

by S.A.A. Calvert

A collection of shorter fiction tied together by the idea of a New Year resolution. Some old friends make cameo appearances.

Out With The Old: an ambulance crew enjoys the delights of New Year's Eve in central Cardiff
Gooseberry: the joys of Brighton New Year's Eve, and the fun of watching the back of a friend who is determined it will be a big night, at least for her
First Flight: her child is only just out of hospital after serious self-harm, but work is work.
Icebreaker: her first trip to London was bad enough. Can she face it again?
Vanishing Point: how far can you ride if there is nothing to come back to?
Working Break: spending Christmas where the wrong side of a bar may turn out to be the right one.
Prodigal Son: going home is sometimes the only option
Fine Tuning: making your own way doesn't always come easily
Reading the Room: pages may still be unturned, even in a busy library
False that water may be deeper than you think when first you try to swim

223 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 5, 2024

About the author

I am Steph Calvert, and the thing that most people pick up on is that I am transgendered. That doesn't make me special, but it does influence my writing. I will be blunt: I write love stories. I don't mean fluffy bodice-rippers involving a lot of smouldering, but stories set in the real world, or at least as real as I can make it. Warts and all, but infused throughout with Pandora's gift. How could anyone live without hope?
Most of my stories are tied together with one brutal event, and while I have not written the details, and will not, it is the effects on other people that generate the tales. I make no apologies for the brutality in some of the scenes, just as I make no excuses for the bits where True Love...well, you know the schema.