Patrick O Duffy: 8 books

A collection of nine flash fiction stories, each 1000 words long or less, costing... well, you get the idea. Nine Flash Nine. See, it makes sense. The stories are: * For Sale, Baby Heads, Never Worn * Murder, She Rocked * Boy * Dear Penthouse Forum: I F----d Godzilla * Black Veil and...

Dunny thought that he was onto a good thing when he stole that cab and used it to rob old-age pensioners.But today he may have picked up the wrong passenger...A short crime story about payback and bad decisions.

The cleaning lady eats time. The manager mourns his multi-gendered parent. A pirate radio DJ listens for God. An accountant prepares to kill again. And that's only in four rooms of the Hotel Flamingo, where the room service is terrible and reality flakes and crumbles around the edges. Come...

What caused the recent explosion on the 86 tram? Who were the people who witnessed the event? And how does the omniscient viewpoint of a narrator affect the lives of those characters it describes? A short story about intersecting lives and the expectations of narrative.

This anthology contains six short stories about weirdness and horror, and how life changes when weird things become normal in your eyes. 'On the Redeye Express': It’s about an hour or two into the ride when Nick realises that people are vanishing from the bus. He's too tired to question it,...

Social media undertaker Kendall Barber has discovered something about his new subject - an email set up to be sent after his death.What is in the email - and why is his client, the dead man's brother, so eager to find out?This short story is a mini-sequel to the crime novella 'The Obituarist', but it can also be read as a stand-alone story.

Who's settling accounts for the dead? Two years after his last adventure, obituarist Kendall Barber is still trying to make amends for his past by cleaning up the online presence of Port Virtue's dead. Business isn't great, so he jumps at the chance to work for the estate of a racist demagogue,...

What happens to your Facebook account when you die?Kendall Barber calls himself an obituarist – a social media undertaker who settles accounts for the dead. If you need your loved one’s Twitter account closed down or one last blog post to be made, he’ll take care of it, while also making...