Novels & Novellas
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When Agnes relocates with her family to be nearer to her husband’s mother, life in the regional community leaves her feeling unsettled and alone. Seeking comfort and purpose, she forms a committee to establish a kindergarten for local families.
Through setbacks, small triumphs, and the gentle companionship of the group, Agnes slowly rediscovers connection. She finds peace and a different rhythm in new pastimes. But will these changes be enough for Agnes to release the past that still holds her?
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A lifetime of love; lost and found.
Across the seasons of her life and career, our heroine loves, leaves, and is loved in turn: a childhood sweetheart, a husband, and Dylan – a man she adored.
When Dylan makes a surprise visit, the past returns in vivid detail. When that past is re-lived for one night, it changes, yet again, the course of an eternal love that always finds a way back.
Featured Novellas
This month we feature the works of writer K.C. Mendan. She offers two fictional novellas as downloadable eBooks.
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She opened her eyes.
The light that came through the window was grey. It reminded her of a morning a long time ago.
Maybe that morning was the morning that had changed everything.
Or the bit in the middle, might have been different – kids sooner, a different job, less money.
But where she was right now, this was where she was always going to end up.
‘Here’s your tea, love.’
A male voice came from the other side of the room where the door to the bedroom was.
Every morning, he brought her morning tea to her. Sometimes it was in the bedroom. Sometimes she was already outside in the garden. This was usually only in the summer when the light allowed early morning gardening. Sometimes she was in the sunroom, converted into a space for painting and writing. These days she only wrote poetry.
*Note: Some explicit material
-Downloadable eBook
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Agnes looked around at the people seated in front of her.
Three women, one man.
Sitting around a marked old pine table in a cold church hall on a wet evening.
Were they all here because they all believed kids were the most important things in the world? Or at least their world?
Because raising kids was the most important job in the world. Wasn’t it?
Agnes was sure this was a fairy tale people with kids told themselves to ensure they got out of bed the next day. It was a myth had been passed on generation from generation to ensure procreation and survival. And based on the evidence Agnes had seen, how could parenting be the most important job? It never featured as an achievement in anything she had read about someone ‘successful’. And very few, if any, important or famous people were important or famous because they were a parent. In fact, most of the women that seemed to reach the pinnacles of society’s definition of success didn’t have children at all – or if they did, they had an army of nannies.
-Downloadable eBook.