Vance Currie

Vance Currie Portfolio

Charlotte's Ghost

Short Story / Humor

Feb 28, 2016

The Booksie Classic House

Charlotte is a ghost with a passion for resurrection, but she needs a new body. Would she stoop to committing fratricide to get it? Read More

The Thirteenth Boy

Short Story / Humor

Aug 24, 2015

The Booksie Classic House

It is Halloween. A boy takes his sister trick or treating. Both of them are dressed as witches. Despite wearing a dress at the time (or perhaps because of it) the boy meets and finds romance with… Read More

My Name is Not Rosalind

Short Story / Horror

Apr 20, 2017

The Booksie Classic House

A young man on a tramping trip becomes lost in dense fog. He finds his way to a mansion where no mansion ought to be and begs shelter for the night. A psychopathic countess admits him in… Read More

Ding Dong

Short Story / Humor

Apr 24, 2021

The Booksie Classic House

A silly little tale about a domestic ding-dong and a doorbell that intervened Read More

Gerald's Worst Day Ever

Short Story / Humor

Jul 07, 2021

The Booksie Classic House

A shy young man is wrongly thought to have indulged in debauchery at a posh hotel. Read More

Fairies at the Bottom of the Garden

Short Story / Humor

Sep 05, 2021

The Booksie Classic House

Not everything that flutters by ... may prove to be a butterfly. Read More

Adam and the Atrocious Amazons

Short Story / Humor

Apr 29, 2022

The Booksie Classic House

A quirky tale of a boy with long hair who hated to be mistaken for a girl—until the day it saved his life. Read More

The Moneybox

Short Story / Humor

Sep 11, 2022

The Booksie Classic House

An old man buys a vintage moneybox at a bargain price, and gets more than he bargained for. Read More

The Soul Stealers

Short Story / Fantasy

May 12, 2023

The Booksie Classic House

A modern fairy tale about a boy who saved his soul and lost his heart. Read More

Just a Boy in a Dress

Short Story / Humor

Jan 10, 2024

The Booksie Classic House

An unscrupulous boutique owner dupes a rich mother into buying inappropriate clothing for her son. Read More

A Fate Worse Than Death

Short Story / Humor

Oct 01, 2023

The Booksie Classic House

A young man’s destiny forks, leaving him with conflicting memories of recent events. Destiny strives to correct the anomaly. Read More

A Penny for Peter

Short Story / Humor

May 25, 2017

The Booksie Classic House

The Game is Over

Short Story / Other

Jul 21, 2017

The Booksie Classic House

Harry’s wife Jean liked to watch game shows on television. There was only one thing wrong on this occasion. She had been dead for three months! Read More

Roland's Quest

Short Story / Humor

Aug 04, 2017

The Booksie Classic House

Roland sets out to seek his fortune. Along the way, he escapes the clutches of a cruel crone, rescues a winsome wench and learns how not to shoe a horse. He finds his fortune where he least… Read More

Gideon's Revenge

Short Story / Humor

Oct 12, 2017

The Booksie Classic House

A medieval parody of lust, treachery, kidnap and revenge. Read More

The Pleated Skirt Playground

Short Story / Humor

Oct 31, 2017

The Booksie Classic House

A humorous tale of gender discrimination in the 1970s and a pushy netball mum. Read More

Wallace in Wonderland

Short Story / Romance

Aug 14, 2018

The Contently Deranged Travelers House

An act of chivalry sent Wallace head to head with an attractive girl with a grumpy disposition. The incident led to an adventure that was out of this world – so to speak. Read More

Saving Albert's Soul

Short Story / Humor

Apr 19, 2018

The Booksie Classic House

Albert didn’t believe in life hereafter. When the time came, he would simply cease to exist. It took a quirky Angel called Angela, a girl in a coma, and a couple of crafty crones to show him… Read More

The Shop That Wasn't There

Short Story / Horror

Nov 03, 2018

The Booksie Classic House

The aesthetic quality of an ancient hardbound book can be so ... spellbinding. Read More

Heads Will Roll

Short Story / Humor

Dec 07, 2018

The Booksie Classic House

I wrote this crazy little story to amuse myself. I wasn’t going to post it. But then I thought, why not? Crazy can be fun – if you’ve got the head for it. Read More

Thor's Mighty Miss-Adventure

Short Story / Humor

Jan 17, 2019

The Booksie Classic House

This is a retelling of an Old Norse myth in which Thor has to assume an unmanly disguise to recover his stolen hammer. (1,863 words). Read More

William and the Blue Dress

Short Story / Humor

Apr 01, 2019

The Booksie Classic House

This is a tale of a boy called William and how he came to be the reluctant owner of a blue dress. Read More

What about the Titanic?

Short Story / Humor

Jun 17, 2019

The Booksie Classic House

Drew and Billie discover a mutual interest in Lego. They become best friends – until they face a disturbing revelation on Billie’s birthday. Read More

Crunella Strikes Back

Short Story / Humor

Jul 08, 2019

The Booksie Classic House

A humorous tale of witchcraft most foul, in which Rick Shaw becomes the subject of revenge for a murder he did not commit 400 years ago. Read More

Beyond the Locked Door

Short Story / Humor

Jul 31, 2019

The Booksie Classic House

A humorous tale of how a man's curiosity took him on a most extraordinary adventure. Read More

Alfred and the Artful Angel

Short Story / Humor

Nov 06, 2019

The Booksie Classic House

An angel comes down to take the soul of a little girl to Heaven, only to find there has been a mistake in the Book of Destiny. Read More

Mister Lampwick Goes to School

Short Story / Humor

Dec 28, 2019

The Booksie Classic House

There are no good guys in this story of wickedness and wizardry, but you can’t help loving those potty old pensioners, Mabel and Clara. Read More

Peter and the Enchanted Forest

Short Story / Humor

Feb 10, 2020

The Booksie Classic House

A youth accepts a dare and ends up in a magical world of weird. Parts of this story are based on original fairytales—not on the sanitised versions presented in movies. Read More

The Phantom of the Operetta

Short Story / Humor

Apr 06, 2020

The Booksie Classic House

A humorous tale of a composer who poured his heart and soul into his latest operetta, only to die before he could recover them. Read More

Whose Villa Is This Anyway?

Short Story / Humor

Apr 24, 2020

The Booksie Classic House

George was pleased with his new retirement villa—until he discovered that he was not the sole occupant. Read More