COLOURS: More Shorter Works From The Sussex Borders

by S.A.A. Calvert

A collection of two interleaved tales in five shorter works. One of the tales follows some of the events events in 'Mates' and 'Rainbows in the Rocks'

BLACK AND A lonely woman meets a neurodivergent man. Can they communicate? How well?

HAPPINESS IS A WARM HOUND A professional dog walker meets someone she used to swoon after at school. Can he handle the changes the years have brought?

A COLDER DISH Her friend is suffering after the loss of his wife. Could another friend help?

BLINDSIDE A teacher faces up to events in her old school, as multiple worm cans are opened, including her utter loneliness.

CLOSING DOORS Diane and her team in the Review Unit are handed yet another disturbing case, but the victim is family now.

324 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 23, 2025

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.