The Sheila Stories Podcast

The Sheila Stories #027 -- The Whole World In the story The Whole World, the narrator Thomas reveals a significant mystery of the series at the insistence of his daughter April.    (Note: This is the penultimate Sheila Story.)Read the story in its entirety without commentary at patrickkellystories.comDo you love The Sheila Stories? Tell your friends. They can subscribe to the podcast or find the full collection on Amazon US. For those in Australia, click for Amazon here. Other markets? Go to Amazon and type The Sheila Stories by Patrick Kelly into the search bar. About the Sheila StoriesIf you like historical fiction, World War II novels, adventures that take place in Australia, or a good old-fashioned love story, then The Sheila Stories Podcast is for you.Here is a quick overview: The framework is a classic story within a story:The outer layer is formed by a widower—Thomas—and his two young daughters, Natalie and April. Thomas is concerned because the girls don’t have a strong female figure in their lives, so he starts telling them the Sheila Stories, a series of adventures involving an Australian woman in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s.But Sheila is no ordinary woman.At the age of eighteen, she comes into some money and leaves a comfortable home in Sydney to buy a sheep farm in Queensland.At that’s just the beginning, for during the course of the stories, SheilaBefriends aboriginal farmworkers.Learns to shoot a rifle.Almost drowns.Fights dingos and a poisonous snake.Buys a ten thousand acre cattle station.Dances to big band music in Toowoomba.Joins the Australian Women’s Army Service in WW II.Drives an ambulance.Risks her life to save another.Helps disabled servicemen.Marries a soldier.Moves to America.Runs a bed and breakfast in Cape May, New Jersey.Teaches patience to a child.And opens a surf shop.  I invite you to put your cares aside for thirty minutes a week and join me on a great journey.Strike out to find your fortune at the age of eighteen.Fight for a worthy cause.Fall in love.Experience the heartbreak of loss.Laugh. Cry. Feel the salt air on your face as you ride your surfboard on the beaches of Sydney.You'll have the time of your life. About the StorytellerPat lives in Austin. He likes to cook dinner with his wife, listen to any kind of good music, and take long walks in beautiful places.Pat is the author of four Joe Robbins novels and a time travel novel titled Carter's Last Race. You can find Pat’s work on Amazon under his author name Patrick Kelly. Learn more about Pat’s writing on his website:https://www.patrickkellystories.com/

The Sheila Stories #026 -- Unfamiliar Field The story Unfamiliar Field takes place in 1968. During the story, Sheila and Neal have a debate with their daughter Sandra about the war in Viet Nam.Read the story in its entirety without commentary at patrickkellystories.comDo you love The Sheila Stories? Tell your friends. They can subscribe to the podcast or find the full collection on Amazon US. For those in Australia, click for Amazon here. Other markets? Go to Amazon and type The Sheila Stories by Patrick Kelly into the search bar. About the Sheila StoriesIf you like historical fiction, World War II novels, adventures that take place in Australia, or a good old-fashioned love story, then The Sheila Stories Podcast is for you.Here is a quick overview: The framework is a classic story within a story:The outer layer is formed by a widower—Thomas—and his two young daughters, Natalie and April. Thomas is concerned because the girls don’t have a strong female figure in their lives, so he starts telling them the Sheila Stories, a series of adventures involving an Australian woman in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s.But Sheila is no ordinary woman.At the age of eighteen, she comes into some money and leaves a comfortable home in Sydney to buy a sheep farm in Queensland.At that’s just the beginning, for during the course of the stories, SheilaBefriends aboriginal farmworkers.Learns to shoot a rifle.Almost drowns.Fights dingos and a poisonous snake.Buys a ten thousand acre cattle station.Dances to big band music in Toowoomba.Joins the Australian Women’s Army Service in WW II.Drives an ambulance.Risks her life to save another.Helps disabled servicemen.Marries a soldier.Moves to America.Runs a bed and breakfast in Cape May, New Jersey.Teaches patience to a child.And opens a surf shop.  I invite you to put your cares aside for thirty minutes a week and join me on a great journey.Strike out to find your fortune at the age of eighteen.Fight for a worthy cause.Fall in love.Experience the heartbreak of loss.Laugh. Cry. Feel the salt air on your face as you ride your surfboard on the beaches of Sydney.You'll have the time of your life. About the StorytellerPat lives in Austin. He likes to cook dinner with his wife, listen to any kind of good music, and take long walks in beautiful places.Pat is the author of four Joe Robbins novels and a time travel novel titled Carter's Last Race. You can find Pat’s work on Amazon under his author name Patrick Kelly. Learn more about Pat’s writing on his website:https://www.patrickkellystories.com/

The Sheila Stories #025 -- Ten Percent The story Ten Percent is about reunions. Sheila travels to Darling Downs in Queensland to visit Tom, Hannah, and their children. Once there, she returns to a site where she almost drowned and remembers a dream that never came true.Read the story in its entirety without commentary at patrickkellystories.comDo you love The Sheila Stories? Tell your friends. They can subscribe to the podcast or find the full collection on Amazon US. For those in Australia, click for Amazon here. Other markets? Go to Amazon and type The Sheila Stories by Patrick Kelly into the search bar. About the Sheila StoriesIf you like historical fiction, World War II novels, adventures that take place in Australia, or a good old-fashioned love story, then The Sheila Stories Podcast is for you.Here is a quick overview: The framework is a classic story within a story:The outer layer is formed by a widower—Thomas—and his two young daughters, Natalie and April. Thomas is concerned because the girls don’t have a strong female figure in their lives, so he starts telling them the Sheila Stories, a series of adventures involving an Australian woman in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s.But Sheila is no ordinary woman.At the age of eighteen, she comes into some money and leaves a comfortable home in Sydney to buy a sheep farm in Queensland.At that’s just the beginning, for during the course of the stories, SheilaBefriends aboriginal farmworkers.Learns to shoot a rifle.Almost drowns.Fights dingos and a poisonous snake.Buys a ten thousand acre cattle station.Dances to big band music in Toowoomba.Joins the Australian Women’s Army Service in WW II.Drives an ambulance.Risks her life to save another.Helps disabled servicemen.Marries a soldier.Moves to America.Runs a bed and breakfast in Cape May, New Jersey.Teaches patience to a child.And opens a surf shop.  I invite you to put your cares aside for thirty minutes a week and join me on a great journey.Strike out to find your fortune at the age of eighteen.Fight for a worthy cause.Fall in love.Experience the heartbreak of loss.Laugh. Cry. Feel the salt air on your face as you ride your surfboard on the beaches of Sydney.You'll have the time of your life. About the StorytellerPat lives in Austin. He likes to cook dinner with his wife, listen to any kind of good music, and take long walks in beautiful places.Pat is the author of four Joe Robbins novels and a time travel novel titled Carter's Last Race. You can find Pat’s work on Amazon under his author name Patrick Kelly. Learn more about Pat’s writing on his website:https://www.patrickkellystories.com/

The Sheila Stories #024 -- The Bandstand In the story The Bandstand, Sheila’s got game—a new bathing suit and a sudden interest in a lawyer from Delaware named Neal Russo.Read the story in its entirety without commentary at patrickkellystories.comDo you love The Sheila Stories? Tell your friends. They can subscribe to the podcast or find the full collection on Amazon US. For those in Australia, click for Amazon here. Other markets? Go to Amazon and type The Sheila Stories by Patrick Kelly into the search bar. About the Sheila StoriesIf you like historical fiction, World War II novels, adventures that take place in Australia, or a good old-fashioned love story, then The Sheila Stories Podcast is for you.Here is a quick overview: The framework is a classic story within a story:The outer layer is formed by a widower—Thomas—and his two young daughters, Natalie and April. Thomas is concerned because the girls don’t have a strong female figure in their lives, so he starts telling them the Sheila Stories, a series of adventures involving an Australian woman in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s.But Sheila is no ordinary woman.At the age of eighteen, she comes into some money and leaves a comfortable home in Sydney to buy a sheep farm in Queensland.At that’s just the beginning, for during the course of the stories, SheilaBefriends aboriginal farmworkers.Learns to shoot a rifle.Almost drowns.Fights dingos and a poisonous snake.Buys a ten thousand acre cattle station.Dances to big band music in Toowoomba.Joins the Australian Women’s Army Service in WW II.Drives an ambulance.Risks her life to save another.Helps disabled servicemen.Marries a soldier.Moves to America.Runs a bed and breakfast in Cape May, New Jersey.Teaches patience to a child.And opens a surf shop.  I invite you to put your cares aside for thirty minutes a week and join me on a great journey.Strike out to find your fortune at the age of eighteen.Fight for a worthy cause.Fall in love.Experience the heartbreak of loss.Laugh. Cry. Feel the salt air on your face as you ride your surfboard on the beaches of Sydney.You'll have the time of your life. About the StorytellerPat lives in Austin. He likes to cook dinner with his wife, listen to any kind of good music, and take long walks in beautiful places.Pat is the author of four Joe Robbins novels and a time travel novel titled Carter's Last Race. You can find Pat’s work on Amazon under his author name Patrick Kelly. Learn more about Pat’s writing on his website:https://www.patrickkellystories.com/

The Sheila Stories #023 -- Patience In the story Patience, Sheila teaches Flossie Parker’s children: Freddie, Abby, and Peggy, how to fish.Read the story in its entirety without commentary at patrickkellystories.comDo you love The Sheila Stories? Tell your friends. They can subscribe to the podcast or find the full collection on Amazon US. For those in Australia, click for Amazon here. Other markets? Go to Amazon and type The Sheila Stories by Patrick Kelly into the search bar. About the Sheila StoriesIf you like historical fiction, World War II novels, adventures that take place in Australia, or a good old-fashioned love story, then The Sheila Stories Podcast is for you.Here is a quick overview: The framework is a classic story within a story:The outer layer is formed by a widower—Thomas—and his two young daughters, Natalie and April. Thomas is concerned because the girls don’t have a strong female figure in their lives, so he starts telling them the Sheila Stories, a series of adventures involving an Australian woman in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s.But Sheila is no ordinary woman.At the age of eighteen, she comes into some money and leaves a comfortable home in Sydney to buy a sheep farm in Queensland.At that’s just the beginning, for during the course of the stories, SheilaBefriends aboriginal farmworkers.Learns to shoot a rifle.Almost drowns.Fights dingos and a poisonous snake.Buys a ten thousand acre cattle station.Dances to big band music in Toowoomba.Joins the Australian Women’s Army Service in WW II.Drives an ambulance.Risks her life to save another.Helps disabled servicemen.Marries a soldier.Moves to America.Runs a bed and breakfast in Cape May, New Jersey.Teaches patience to a child.And opens a surf shop.  I invite you to put your cares aside for thirty minutes a week and join me on a great journey.Strike out to find your fortune at the age of eighteen.Fight for a worthy cause.Fall in love.Experience the heartbreak of loss.Laugh. Cry. Feel the salt air on your face as you ride your surfboard on the beaches of Sydney.You'll have the time of your life. About the StorytellerPat lives in Austin. He likes to cook dinner with his wife, listen to any kind of good music, and take long walks in beautiful places.Pat is the author of four Joe Robbins novels and a time travel novel titles Carter's Last Race. You can find Pat’s work on Amazon under his author name Patrick Kelly. Learn more about Pat’s writing on his website:https://www.patrickkellystories.com/

The Sheila Stories #022 -- Cold In the story Cold, Sheila struggles to endure a harsh winter in Cape May and meets a fellow year-rounder named Dot Flagg.Read the story in its entirety without commentary at patrickkellystories.comDo you love The Sheila Stories? Tell your friends. They can subscribe to the podcast or find the full collection on Amazon US. For those in Australia, click for Amazon here. Other markets? Go to Amazon and type The Sheila Stories by Patrick Kelly into the search bar. About the Sheila StoriesIf you like historical fiction, World War II novels, adventures that take place in Australia, or a good old-fashioned love story, then The Sheila Stories Podcast is for you.Here is a quick overview: The framework is a classic story within a story:The outer layer is formed by a widower—Thomas—and his two young daughters, Natalie and April. Thomas is concerned because the girls don’t have a strong female figure in their lives, so he starts telling them the Sheila Stories, a series of adventures involving an Australian woman in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s.But Sheila is no ordinary woman.At the age of eighteen, she comes into some money and leaves a comfortable home in Sydney to buy a sheep farm in Queensland.At that’s just the beginning, for during the course of the stories, SheilaBefriends aboriginal farmworkers.Learns to shoot a rifle.Almost drowns.Fights dingos and a poisonous snake.Buys a ten thousand acre cattle station.Dances to big band music in Toowoomba.Joins the Australian Women’s Army Service in WW II.Drives an ambulance.Risks her life to save another.Helps disabled servicemen.Marries a soldier.Moves to America.Runs a bed and breakfast in Cape May, New Jersey.Teaches patience to a child.And opens a surf shop.  I invite you to put your cares aside for thirty minutes a week and join me on a great journey.Strike out to find your fortune at the age of eighteen.Fight for a worthy cause.Fall in love.Experience the heartbreak of loss.Laugh. Cry. Feel the salt air on your face as you ride your surfboard on the beaches of Sydney.You'll have the time of your life. About the StorytellerPat lives in Austin. He likes to cook dinner with his wife, listen to any kind of good music, and take long walks in beautiful places.Pat is the author of four Joe Robbins novels and a college crime story titled Only Yes Means Yes. You can find Pat’s work on Amazon under his author name Patrick Kelly. Learn more about Pat’s writing on his website:https://www.patrickkellystories.com/

The Sheila Stories #021 -- Off Script In the story Off Script, Sheila opens an inn in Cape May, and Jesse tries his hand at writing a screenplay for Hollywood.Read the story in its entirety without commentary at patrickkellystories.comDo you love The Sheila Stories? Tell your friends. They can subscribe to the podcast or find the full collection on Amazon US. For those in Australia, click for Amazon here. Other markets? Go to Amazon and type The Sheila Stories by Patrick Kelly into the search bar. About the Sheila StoriesIf you like historical fiction, World War II novels, adventures that take place in Australia, or a good old-fashioned love story, then The Sheila Stories Podcast is for you.Here is a quick overview: The framework is a classic story within a story:The outer layer is formed by a widower—Thomas—and his two young daughters, Natalie and April. Thomas is concerned because the girls don’t have a strong female figure in their lives, so he starts telling them the Sheila Stories, a series of adventures involving an Australian woman in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s.But Sheila is no ordinary woman.At the age of eighteen, she comes into some money and leaves a comfortable home in Sydney to buy a sheep farm in Queensland.At that’s just the beginning, for during the course of the stories, SheilaBefriends aboriginal farmworkers.Learns to shoot a rifle.Almost drowns.Fights dingos and a poisonous snake.Buys a ten thousand acre cattle station.Dances to big band music in Toowoomba.Joins the Australian Women’s Army Service in WW II.Drives an ambulance.Risks her life to save another.Helps disabled servicemen.Marries a soldier.Moves to America.Runs a bed and breakfast in Cape May, New Jersey.Teaches patience to a child.And opens a surf shop.  I invite you to put your cares aside for thirty minutes a week and join me on a great journey.Strike out to find your fortune at the age of eighteen.Fight for a worthy cause.Fall in love.Experience the heartbreak of loss.Laugh. Cry. Feel the salt air on your face as you ride your surfboard on the beaches of Sydney.You'll have the time of your life. About the StorytellerPat lives in Austin. He likes to cook dinner with his wife, listen to any kind of good music, and take long walks in beautiful places.Pat is the author of four Joe Robbins novels and a college crime story titled Only Yes Means Yes. You can find Pat’s work on Amazon under his author name Patrick Kelly. Learn more about Pat’s writing on his website:https://www.patrickkellystories.com/

The Sheila Stories #019 -- Ritner Street In the story Ritner Street, Sheila tries to adjust to life in South Philly and makes friends with Flossie Parker, a young American mother.Read the story in its entirety without commentary at patrickkellystories.comDo you love The Sheila Stories? Tell your friends. They can subscribe to the podcast or find the full collection on Amazon US. For those in Australia, click for Amazon here. Other markets? Go to Amazon and type The Sheila Stories by Patrick Kelly into the search bar. About the Sheila StoriesIf you like historical fiction, World War II novels, adventures that take place in Australia, or a good old-fashioned love story, then The Sheila Stories Podcast is for you.Here is a quick overview: The framework is a classic story within a story:The outer layer is formed by a widower—Thomas—and his two young daughters, Natalie and April. Thomas is concerned because the girls don’t have a strong female figure in their lives, so he starts telling them the Sheila Stories, a series of adventures involving an Australian woman in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s.But Sheila is no ordinary woman.At the age of eighteen, she comes into some money and leaves a comfortable home in Sydney to buy a sheep farm in Queensland.At that’s just the beginning, for during the course of the stories, SheilaBefriends aboriginal farmworkers.Learns to shoot a rifle.Almost drowns.Fights dingos and a poisonous snake.Buys a ten thousand acre cattle station.Dances to big band music in Toowoomba.Joins the Australian Women’s Army Service in WW II.Drives an ambulance.Risks her life to save another.Helps disabled servicemen.Marries a soldier.Moves to America.Runs a bed and breakfast in Cape May, New Jersey.Teaches patience to a child.And opens a surf shop.  I invite you to put your cares aside for thirty minutes a week and join me on a great journey.Strike out to find your fortune at the age of eighteen.Fight for a worthy cause.Fall in love.Experience the heartbreak of loss.Laugh. Cry. Feel the salt air on your face as you ride your surfboard on the beaches of Sydney.You'll have the time of your life. About the StorytellerPat lives in Austin. He likes to cook dinner with his wife, listen to any kind of good music, and take long walks in beautiful places.Pat is the author of four Joe Robbins novels and a college crime story titled Only Yes Means Yes. You can find Pat’s work on Amazon under his author name Patrick Kelly. Learn more about Pat’s writing on his website:https://www.patrickkellystories.com/

Sheila Stories #018 -- Honor Ride In the story Honor Ride, Sheila continues to manage the entertainment program for injured soldiers and anxiously waits for news from Jesse Flynn.Read the story in its entirety without commentary at patrickkellystories.comDo you love The Sheila Stories? Tell your friends. They can subscribe to the podcast or find the full collection on Amazon US. For those in Australia, click for Amazon here. Other markets? Go to Amazon and type The Sheila Stories by Patrick Kelly into the search bar. About the Sheila StoriesIf you like historical fiction, World War II novels, adventures that take place in Australia, or a good old-fashioned love story, then The Sheila Stories Podcast is for you.Here is a quick overview: The framework is a classic story within story:The outer layer is formed by a widower—Thomas—and his two young daughters, Natalie and April. Thomas is concerned because the girls don’t have a strong female figure in their lives, so he starts telling them the Sheila Stories, a series of adventures involving an Australian woman in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s.But Sheila is no ordinary woman.At the age of eighteen, she comes into some money and leaves a comfortable home in Sydney to buy a sheep farm in Queensland.At that’s just the beginning, for during the course of the stories, SheilaBefriends aboriginal farm workers.Learns to shoot a rifle.Almost drowns.Fights dingos and a poisonous snake.Buys a ten thousand acre cattle station.Dances to big band music in Toowoomba.Joins the Australian Women’s Army Service in WW II.Drives an ambulance.Risks her life to save another.Helps disabled servicemen.Marries a soldier.Moves to America.Runs a bed and breakfast in Cape May, New Jersey.Teaches patience to a child.And opens a surf shop.  I invite you to put your cares aside for thirty minutes a week and join me on a great journey.Strike out to find your fortune at the age of eighteen.Fight for a worthy cause.Fall in love.Experience the heartbreak of loss.Laugh. Cry. Feel the salt air on your face as you ride your surfboard on the beaches of Sydney.You'll have the time of your life. About the StorytellerPat lives in Austin. He likes to cook dinner with his wife, listen to any kind of good music, and take long walks in beautiful places.Pat is the author of four Joe Robbins novels and a college crime story titled Only Yes Means Yes. You can find Pat’s work on Amazon under his author name Patrick Kelly. Learn more about Pat’s writing at his website:https://www.patrickkellystories.com/

Sheila Stories #017 -- A Writer by Training In the story A Writer by Training, Sheila takes a group of injured soldiers to the races at Randwick and meets Jesse Flynn, an American war reporter for the Stars and Stripes.Read the story in its entirety without commentary at patrickkellystories.comDo you love The Sheila Stories? Tell your friends. They can subscribe to the podcast or find the full collection on Amazon US. For those in Australia, click for Amazon here. Other markets? Go to Amazon and type The Sheila Stories by Patrick Kelly into the search bar. About the Sheila StoriesIf you like historical fiction, World War II novels, adventures that take place in Australia, or a good old-fashioned love story, then The Sheila Stories Podcast is for you.Here is a quick overview: The framework is a classic story within story:The outer layer is formed by a widower—Thomas—and his two young daughters, Natalie and April. Thomas is concerned because the girls don’t have a strong female figure in their lives, so he starts telling them the Sheila Stories, a series of adventures involving an Australian woman in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s.But Sheila is no ordinary woman.At the age of eighteen, she comes into some money and leaves a comfortable home in Sydney to buy a sheep farm in Queensland.At that’s just the beginning, for during the course of the stories, SheilaBefriends aboriginal farm workers.Learns to shoot a rifle.Almost drowns.Fights dingos and a poisonous snake.Buys a ten thousand acre cattle station.Dances to big band music in Toowoomba.Joins the Australian Women’s Army Service in WW II.Drives an ambulance.Risks her life to save another.Helps disabled servicemen.Marries a soldier.Moves to America.Runs a bed and breakfast in Cape May, New Jersey.Teaches patience to a child.And opens a surf shop.  I invite you to put your cares aside for thirty minutes a week and join me on a great journey.Strike out to find your fortune at the age of eighteen.Fight for a worthy cause.Fall in love.Experience the heartbreak of loss.Laugh. Cry. Feel the salt air on your face as you ride your surfboard on the beaches of Sydney.You'll have the time of your life. About the StorytellerPat lives in Austin. He likes to cook dinner with his wife, listen to any kind of good music, and take long walks in beautiful places.Pat is the author of four Joe Robbins novels and a college crime story titled Only Yes Means Yes. You can find Pat’s work on Amazon under his author name Patrick Kelly. Learn more about Pat’s writing at his website:https://www.patrickkellystories.com/