My stories
About fifty of my stories have been published here and abroad in women’s magazines.
This is a quote from a website called womagwriter written in July 2007:
“ I was reading a couple of Woman's Weekly specials yesterday - a Fiction Special from earlier in the summer, and the Summer Special. I noticed there are quite a few stories using unusual structures - enough to make me think WW is particularly receptive to something out of the ordinary.
Here are some I noted:
A story by Alison Clink entitled ChapterThirteen.
This one's wacky! The main character is aware that she's a character in a novel. She'd split up with her hubby in an earlier chapter and knew a steamy affair was on the cards for her before the end of the book. She meets a James Bond look-a-like who tells her there's no need to spend her whole life being the wrong character, he'll introduce her to his cousin who's a writer and will put her in a much better novel... You get the gist. It's laugh out loud funny, and certainly very original.
Another story by Alison Clink entitled Things that make me cry.
This one starts off as a list, of, you guessed it, things that make the MC cry. And then there are things that make her laugh, too. There's not much of a plot - it's a mother and her young daughter and a happy day spent out together. But the structure makes it unusual and very readable.