John Porter

• Jan-2020
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The book is about a man that develops Alzheimer’s disease and has to love his sister without doing things for her and thinking she’s his daughter and the man has a plan to develop her into peace. She knows that the man is nuts but will have him t...

• Jan-2017
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Two females each competing for the same male. a recipe for heartache and horror. Perhaps this story was drawn from something I overheard many years ago, or maybe something I read about or dreamed of when I was younger. If you find that it rings...

• Sep-2016
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• Oct-2014
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A genius? A madman? A fraud? The storyline: drawn from a real-life Aussie mystery. The collection: a man, a mine, gemstones, sex, the CIA, a gold seam, biological weapons research, a dog, obsessive eccentrics. The display case: an ongoing search for ...

• Mar-2012
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All small towns thrive on gossip. It's not what happens that matters but what's said about it. A clergyman visiting a crazy old lady soon finds that tittle-tattle can be socially harmful, as well as confusing, and quite dangerous to his...

• Mar-2012
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Drug dealing can be dangerous. Other dealer. police investigations. self indulgence. Those are just the more glamorous hazards. But the insidious threats of greed and arrogance can do far more harm in the end, as one grower/dealer discovers. O...

• Mar-2012
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The stories of Australia's Aborigines date back thousands of years to the great Dreamtime, but still they impact on the people and the land of today. This tale describes how the ancient tales affect a series of events over several days as a v...

• Mar-2012
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Two centuries of one of Australia's founding families unfold as generations are shaped and moulded by historic events, relationships, and the grand and majestic sweep of the Hawkesbury River. One in a series of ten short stories published in...

• Mar-2012
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Dirty dealings in a country hospital lead to an unexpectedly natural punishment for the perpetrator. One in a series of ten short stories in the compilation entitled A Collection Of Dirty Little Stories....

• Mar-2012
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We all know a few braggarts. People who would have to be 150 years old to have fitted everything into their lives that they boast about. But what if they were telling the truth? Some surprises are in store for the owner of a small hardware shop as...

• Feb-2012
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Christmas - a a time for kids to have fun, open presents, play with their friends, and eat too much. A time too, for parents to pretend that the gifts their children wrapped with sticky, grubby fingers, are exactly what Mummy and Daddy wanted. Of...

• Jan-2012
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The world in which we live is permanently poised between a series of extremes; up and down, dark and light, yin and yang. life and death. In fact the very fabric of what we experience teeters constantly on the knife edge that separates rea...

• Jan-2012
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There are a number of things which almost all human beings that have walked on this planet have had in common. Ever since he first hauled himself upright and stopped dragging his hairy knuckles along the forest floor, man has pretty much both suff...

• Jan-2012
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The date is 2280, and the world is very different. Virtual reality has replaced much of the actual world, and many of the planet's inhebitants are no longer even made of flesh and blood. But children are still children. they still crave new toys...

• Feb-2007
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A teacher who taught creative writing once said, "When you become a writer always consider writing 'human-interest stories' because these are the stories today's readers enjoy and relate to. Somewhere in a story, they will find something that reminds...

For a young couple moving ahead into an exciting new stage of life, everything is an exciting challenge. a journey together through the shared adventures of renovating an old house, starting a new business, and keeping a most extraordinary new p...

For a visually impared man living alone, it's imperitive to maintain a strict set of systems. Even things which to sighted people would be disasterous can be dealt with comfortably, as long as the systems are adhered to. One in a series of...

No erotica in this collection, despite the title! Just tales of people getting filthy mad at each other, commiting dirty deeds out of greed, lust or jealousy, and generally a whole swag of grubby goings-on. Some are filled with wry humour, others...

A sometimes humorous, sometimes thought-provoking look at how animals think and act, how people treat animals, and what happens to dogs in the afterlife. Tales from ancient Egypt and even further back in the primordial past, right through to the s...

With utter certainty each creature has, at some point, needed to confront the mystery, pain and anguish of their own death, and possibly that of others too, sometimes welcomed, but often not. And as far as we who remain tied to our mortal bodies k...

As the Western World was reaching out to investigate the remains of long-dead civilisations, the increasing speed of technological advances - the motor car, the telegraph and photography - seemed to push out all the Mumbo-Jumbo of the native peopl...

All puppies are loved. until they grow old and lose their teeth. start to smell. then they're replaced by a newer model and left to live out their last years in a world of their own. Unless they're lucky enough to have a hobby....