About me

I am a mathematician and writer, currently revising my first novel. I live in Perth, Western Australia, on Noongar Boodja with a dog, a cat and a few bantams. This blog shares my short stories and adventures in writing.

  Fiona H Evans

Recent posts

Story of the Week

Oh, how wonderful to wake on a Monday morning and find this in my feed! “A Halloween Tale” was selected as story of the week at 50-Word Stories
6 Nov 2022 1 min read Micro, Dribble

A Halloween Tale

My take on A Halloween Tale
31 Oct 2022 1 min read Micro, Dribble

Flow

Over ten years ago, I wrote a deeply honest and personal poem about the feelings and emotions around motherhood that my monthly cycle aroused. I still don’t have children.
26 Sep 2022 1 min read Poetry

This Writing Life

I’m reading ‘This Writing Life’ by Annie Dillard. She writes: Graham Greene noticed that since a novel “takes perhaps years to write, the author is not the same man at the end of the book as he was at the beginning…as though [the novel] were something he had begun in childhood and was finishing now in old age.
27 Aug 2022 2 min read Blog

A murder on the wing

I love this little story published today on 50-Word Stories. I’ve been writing a daily story on Twitter using prompts from @vssdaily. Since 15 May 2022, I’ve written 79 very short stories.
1 Aug 2022 1 min read Microfiction, Dribble, 50-Words
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Published writing

Love Blooms and Dies But Never Fades

Friday Flash Fiction, 6 January 2023

Wallflower

Friday Flash Fiction, 30 December 2022

A Halloween Tale

Fifty Word Stories, 31 October 2022

Flow

The Drabble, 26 Sep 2022

A Murder on the Wing

Fifty Word Stories, 1 Aug 2022

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Paragraph Planet, 19 Jul 2022

Darkside

Haunted Words Press, 1 Jul 2022

Nanoism

Nanoism, 29 Jun 2022

When I quit my toxic job to find something better

Six Sentences, 18 Jun 2022

Bittersweet

Microfiction Monday, 30 May 2022