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Out In The Blue
Started: July 2014
Completed instalments: 1
Status: On temporary hiatus – to be resumed at the conclusion of Braving Darker Days
Word count: 3,030
Rating: M
“So you’re done,” Isaac said once I’d seated myself in one of the folding chairs Mum and Dad kept out on the verandah, and I nodded. Now that the euphoria I’d felt that morning at finally making it to remission had evaporated, I just felt stunned. For nearly three years, since the beginning of August 2002, my life had essentially consisted of a seemingly endless stream of doctor’s appointments, tests, chemotherapy and avoiding my reflection in the mirror. I almost didn’t know what to do with myself.

Love, Chaos And Other Phenomena
Started: November 2016
Completed instalments: 2
Status: In progress
Word count: 8,479
Rating: M
“Same thing she did last year.” Molly nodded toward the windows at the rear of the building, through which I could see the swimming pool. The Olympic-sized pool had a floating obstacle course set up down the middle of the shallow end, with small knots of spectators watching from the poolside as one student after another attempted to complete the course without taking an involuntary dip. “I think she might actually manage to finish it this year though.”

Three Chords And The Truth
Started: January 2017
Completed instalments: 2
Status: In progress
Word count: 4,911
Rating: M
Back inside the cabin, it was the usual madness that accompanied the Hanson family whenever we travelled to Byron Bay for the Easter long weekend. Dad held court in the cabin’s kitchenette, an egg flip in one hand and a pair of tongs in the other. Mum sat at the tiny dining table with my youngest brother on her knee, feeding him his dinner. And sitting on the lounge across the room from the kitchenette were Isaac and Zac – Zac was talking at top speed as he watched TV, and Isaac was leafing one-handed through what looked like a guitar magazine with a finger shoved into one of his ears. I bit back a smirk at this – if I had to listen to Zac jabbering on at the top of his voice in close quarters, I’d end up sticking a finger in my ear too.

Cherry Blossom Girl
Started: November 2018
Completed instalments: 2
Status: In progress
Word count: 6,118
Rating: M
Like everyone else in the world, I had a timer. I wasn't entirely sure of the mechanics behind it – according to what I'd learned during my first year of secondary school, it had something to do with capillaries and blood flow – but I did know that it counted down to what was supposed to be the most important day of my life. The day I would meet the one person who knew me as well as I knew myself – perhaps even better than that.

Twin Souls Trilogy
Started: January 2008
Completed instalments: 43, across three stories
Status: In progress
Word count: 188,697
Rating: MA 15+
At Schuyler’s words, I too looked up. Standing before us was Mark’s twin, judging from the lack of a watch around either of his wrists. “Oh wow,” I breathed. He towered over Schuyler and I, and wore his long, caramel-coloured hair loose over his shoulders. Peering down at us in what looked like amusement, over a pair of rectangular-framed glasses, was a set of bright blue eyes.

Tether
Started: November 2013
Completed instalments: 7
Status: In progress
Word count: 59,550
Rating: M
“Talk to them,” Kimberley replied. “Find out why they’ve kept this from you for so long. But I would wait until after your dad is out of here. I don’t think it’s a conversation you should have here – it’s a private matter between you and your parents.” She came over to where I sat on a high stool and put her hands on my shoulders. “I really am sorry you had to find out this way. And if it helps any, I still love you no matter what. That you might be adopted, that doesn’t have any bearing on who you are as a person – you are still my Taylor, and that will never change. Okay?”

Fire And The Flood
Started: November 2021
Completed instalments: 2
Word count: 9,603
Rating: MA 15+
I hadn’t been entirely honest with Maddie. She’d been right in that I was worried about seeing my family again, most of them for the first time since I’d moved permanently across the country, but more than almost anything else I was scared. The way that my brothers especially had treated me after I’d come out – or more accurately, after I’d been outed – was something I would have rather forgotten for the rest of my life, but now that I would be seeing them for the first time in many, many years I was going to have to face those particular memories all over again. It wasn’t something I was looking forward to.