Stories Worth Telling
Short fiction, personal narratives, and stories from the edges of business and life — by Abel Prasad.
From boardroom pressure to quiet moments of clarity, these stories explore what it means to lead, fall, and keep going.
The Forum smelled of money and fear. When Rome's most powerful creditor arrives at a banker's table four days before the Ides, the questions he asks are never really about money...
When Crassus offers to buy Aemilius's debt at par value, Sura understands the real price isn't in the purse — it's in the page he'll have to remove from his codex...
A banker. A knife. A single page of calfskin that — once removed — becomes the most powerful document in Rome. The conclusion of The Argentarius trilogy...
Hong Kong, 1992. A body in the harbour. A jade ring that belongs to someone else. Detective Inspector Raymond Cheuk knows this city keeps nothing — it just returns things altered...
A forensic accountant. A dead sister. A consultancy fee that makes no sense. Oslo in November, and a list that was meant to be found...
Edinburgh, 1888. Professor Mure is found dead on his own dissection table. Dr Agnes Blackwood has approximately four seconds to decide what to do about it...
A flat tyre. A creek in the Yarra Ranges. A shape in the water with eyes the colour of lichen. A woman who hasn't slept through the night in three years...
Eleven maps appeared on Declan's kitchen table the morning after he stopped eating. One showed a road on Phillip Island marked simply: The one you were going to take...
The moths came in the first October after Liam died. By the eighth night, they had arranged themselves into a path — and at the gate, Maree found something waiting...
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