Sheila Stories #006 -- A Fast and Steady RideIn Thomas’s world:Thomas and Chris have a second more intimate conversation.And in Sheila’s world:While riding her pony Kirra in the Western Downs, Sheila is pulled into the flash flood created by a violent storm. Read the story in its entirety without commentary at patrickkellystories.com 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/ About the Sheila StoriesDo you love Australians?Do you love the greatest generation? The men and women who did their part to fight and win World War II?Or maybe you just love adventure stories with a strong female lead.If any of these characteristics excites you, listen in because you’ll love the Sheila Stories.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 womanAt 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 workersLearns to shoot a rifleAlmost drownsFights dingos and a poisonous snakeBuys a ten thousand acre cattle stationDances to big band music in ToowoombaJoins the Australian Women’s Army Service in WW 2Drives an ambulanceRisks her life to save anotherHelps disabled servicemenMarries a soldierMoves to AmericaRuns a bed and breakfast in Cape May New JerseyTeaches patience to a childAnd 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 just might have the time of your life.

Sheila Stories #005 -- DingoesIn Thomas’s world:Natalie and April surprise Thomas as they seek to bring Chris closer into the family.And in Sheila’s world:On a prospecting trip to the Western Downs, Sheila’s truck breaks down and she must wait overnight for help. Then the wild dingoes arrive.  Read the story in its entirety without commentary at patrickkellystories.com 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/ About the Sheila StoriesDo you love Australians?Do you love the greatest generation? The men and women who did their part to fight and win World War II?Or maybe you just love adventure stories with a strong female lead.If any of these characteristics excites you, listen in because you’ll love the Sheila Stories.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 womanAt 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 workersLearns to shoot a rifleAlmost drownsFights dingos and a poisonous snakeBuys a ten thousand acre cattle stationDances to big band music in ToowoombaJoins the Australian Women’s Army Service in WW 2Drives an ambulanceRisks her life to save anotherHelps disabled servicemenMarries a soldierMoves to AmericaRuns a bed and breakfast in Cape May New JerseyTeaches patience to a childAnd 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 just might have the time of your life.

Sheila Stories #004 -- The Stock and Station AgentIn Thomas’s world:Chris Carbone—an attractive woman in her thirties—moves into the spare apartment, a development that Thomas finds awkward.And in Sheila’s world, she continues to expand her holdings which piques the interest of a stock and station agent named Colin McKechnie.Read the story in its entirety without commentary at patrickkellystories.com 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/ About the Sheila StoriesDo you love Australians?Do you love the greatest generation? The men and women who did their part to fight and win World War II?Or maybe you just love adventure stories with a strong female lead.If any of these characteristics excites you, listen in because you’ll love the Sheila Stories.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 womanAt 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 workersLearns to shoot a rifleAlmost drownsFights dingos and a poisonous snakeBuys a ten thousand acre cattle stationDances to big band music in ToowoombaJoins the Australian Women’s Army Service in WW 2Drives an ambulanceRisks her life to save anotherHelps disabled servicemenMarries a soldierMoves to AmericaRuns a bed and breakfast in Cape May New JerseyTeaches patience to a childAnd 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 just might have the time of your life.

Sheila Stories #002 -- Darling DownsIn Thomas’s world:Natalie and April beg their father to allow them to have a dog like the one in the first Sheila story, but Thomas is reluctant because of the cost.And in Sheila’s world:Sheila struggles to ride a pony and realizes she needs the help of Tom and his family to survive as a farmer. Read the story in its entirety without commentary at patrickkellystories.com 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/About the Sheila StoriesDo you love Australians?Do you love the greatest generation? The men and women who did their part to fight and win World War II?Or maybe you just love adventure stories with a strong female lead.If any of these characteristics excites you, listen in because you’ll love the Sheila Stories.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 womanAt 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 workersLearns to shoot a rifleAlmost drownsFights dingos and a poisonous snakeBuys a ten thousand acre cattle stationDances to big band music in ToowoombaJoins the Australian Women’s Army Service in WW 2Drives an ambulanceRisks her life to save anotherHelps disabled servicemenMarries a soldierMoves to AmericaRuns a bed and breakfast in Cape May New JerseyTeaches patience to a childAnd 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 just might have the time of your life.

Sheila Stories #001 -- On to ToowoombaA widower named Thomas seeks to create a strong female role model for his two daughters—Natalie and April—by telling them the Sheila Stories.In the first story, Sheila Wright, at the age of eighteen, travels from her home in Sydney to Toowoomba, Queensland, with the intention of buying a sheep farm. 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/About the Sheila StoriesDo you love Australians?Do you love the greatest generation? The men and women who did their part to fight and win World War II?Or maybe you just love adventure stories with a strong female lead.If any of these characteristics excites you, listen in because you’ll love the Sheila Stories.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 womanAt 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 workersLearns to shoot a rifleAlmost drownsFights dingos and a poisonous snakeBuys a ten thousand acre cattle stationDances to big band music in ToowoombaJoins the Australian Women’s Army Service in WW 2Drives an ambulanceRisks her life to save anotherHelps disabled servicemenMarries a soldierMoves to AmericaRuns a bed and breakfast in Cape May New JerseyTeaches patience to a childAnd 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 just might have the time of your life.

About the Sheila StoriesDo you love Australians?Do you love the greatest generation? The men and women who did their part to fight and win World War II?Or maybe you just love adventure stories with a strong female lead.If any of these characteristics excites you, listen in because you’ll love the Sheila Stories.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 womanAt 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 workersLearns to shoot a rifleAlmost drownsFights dingos and a poisonous snakeBuys a ten thousand acre cattle stationDances to big band music in ToowoombaJoins the Australian Women’s Army Service in WW 2Drives an ambulanceRisks her life to save anotherHelps disabled servicemenMarries a soldierMoves to AmericaRuns a bed and breakfast in Cape May New JerseyTeaches patience to a childAnd 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 just might 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/