Twisted Tax Tales
50 Not Out
Bob awoke and stretched himself out full length in the bed. What a day today was, the big one. He rose and admired himself ...
50 Shades of Accounting
Accountant, Jane Grey leaned forward over her desk. Her cleavage squeezing out top of her white shirt. Looking over the top of her glasses, ...
A (Not So) Terrible Tampon Tax?
“Is there anything more twisted than charging GST on pads and tampons?”“Huh?” Jack didn’t even bother to look up from his breakfast. He enjoyed ...
A Considerate Man
He couldn’t quite remember how or when these thoughts had first occurred to him. Being of a rather indistinct, subliminal nature, they simply just ...
A doctor, an engineer and an accountant walked into a bar
A doctor, an engineer and an accountant walked into a bar. Well, into a sly grog tent decked out with a table and a ...
A little story of a Wraccontant
Accountancy...In your country, what is the job called “accountancy” like? What does come to people’s mind at first when making mention to accountancy?In my ...
A Midsummer’s Nightmare
The Academy of Magical Arts was a place of secrecy. It was hidden deep within forests, far away from any city or town, its ...
A New Day Marks a New Beginning
The sun’s rays were piercing dominantly through the relatively thin and outworn grey curtains of the small eastern window. John reluctantly opened his eyes ...
A Nice, Old Couple
“If I hadn’t told you, you’d never know.”He stared at me in astonishment. What did he think, that I wouldn’t dare speak to him ...
A Nymph’s Kiss
Andrey was absent-mindedly running in the park. He had seen her again. For the third time that week. The girl with the green eyes. ...
A Rhinoceros
“You've got a problem up on the 25th.” Fred rolled his eyes. As managing partner of a mid-tier expanding accountancy firm, when was there ...
A Stroke of Luck
Matthew sat looking down at his cup of tea; he felt faint and was sure that his face had paled. They sat in a ...
A Tidy Summation
Periwinkle’s Cough Drops Co. Ltd. had been crumbling for some time. Incomings were down, production had shrunk and workers on the factory floor had ...
A Triumphant Thief
At exactly 4:55pm that fateful Friday evening; almost close of work for Mr. Stone, a software developer with Best-Data, a multinational I.T. firm owned ...
A Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing
Thursday March 10, 2011, 11:47 a.m. Victor Swineburg, the ever pompous and portentous District Attorney, stood proudly in front of the local newspaper reporters ...
A.A. Saves the Day
“The God Giveth and The God Taketh Away.” A board with this sentence, was the 1st thing I saw, through the lean light, coming ...
Abacus
Simon Grandma Dillinger patted the cushion beside her. There was just enough room for Simon to squeeze in up there between the rolled sofa arm ...
Accountability
Osi was an accountant. That’s all he’d ever been. A brief stint as a bank clerk, when he was seventeen years old, but then ...
Accountant Dracula
I just plain old-fashioned did not want to go. I tried rationalising. Friends would rationalise for me. But rational pegs don’t fit in irrational ...
Accounting for My Twisted Mistake
Chapter 1: MarkI couldn’t keep my eyes off Mrs. Callahan as she left the office. She was so poised. So sophisticated and classy. She ...
Accounting for the Devil
“Thompson!”There it is. ‘My name’, unceremoniously shrieked across the cold office room. For the fourth time in 10 minutes, it’s been catapulted at me ...
Accounting For The Future
The auditorium was hushed as the great man himself stepped up to the podium. A respectful smattering of applause greeted his shy nod.“My goodness, ...
Accounting for Warlords
“Why are we doing this, Jin?” Bo asked imploringly, as they stood in front of the assembled ragtag army, twelve thousand strong. “Or at ...
Actax Alias Onetwo
Born on the twelfth in the twelfth month at twelve pm, a baby boy named Actax. At the age of four he started his ...
Albatross
My thoughts tumble as I type the rest of the financial statement that due by tomorrow. Every day I come into work and look ...
All the Environment Was Covered by the Darkness
All the environment was covered by the darkness. By breaking the darkness, the moon's light came adjoining through the clouds. The moon was peeping ...
All The Good Professions
When I was young, I wanted to be a troubadour. I wasn’t sure what a troubadour was, but it sounded very exciting. Then I ...
Always Mine
DanaI can smell his obsession.My hair stands on end and a trickle of cold sweat runs down my spine. Feeling safe in my own ...
Ambivalent Future
My Attitude Influences the Fate of the Tasmanian DevilThe extinction of the Tasmanian Devil is imminent From Facial Tumour Disease Don’t ever tell me ...
An Indiscrepancy
The window was small, and the sky beyond it was grey with the weight of rain readying itself to fall. John sat at his ...
An Ordinary Man
This story begin as so many story's before, in an apartment complex just outside of Stockholm on the third floor inside a door marked ...
An Otherworldly Account
Fern made her way through the subterranean streets, trying to smile, though the stench of troll filled her nose. It was important to appear ...
Anna Cow Tent
At the tender age of seven, Claire knew, with absolute and unwavering certainty, that she would grow up and become Anna Cow Tent.If asked, ...
Annabel Browning
The girl, 24 years old, fair, pretty who has blue eyes, Annabel Browning, entered to the Gribben Company with a lovely pleasant smile as ...
Another Day at the Office
Mona stopped typing and looked at the letter Mr Hillway had dropped on her desk. A yellow post-it-note was stuck to it. “Change the ...
Aurora
‘’Click clack, click clack’’ , heads turning ,eyes rolling, faces of disgust raising, anger arousing as the sound of her shoes came up all ...
Bad for Business
She used to chew gum. As a receptionist in a doctor’s surgery, it was the epitome of disrespect. She would sit behind the counter, ...
Balancing Principles
Her lithe silhouette cloaked in a large man’s overcoat, Celeste approached the crumbling stone gateway warily, the heavy bag shifting on her hip with ...
Bangalore Girls
Cheryl, the brash middle aged woman from the tobacconist, had a rather odd hobby. She collected other people's discarded shopping lists. She found them ...
Be Kind; Life Will Reward
Jane was a brown pretty and kind girl from the corner of the city of Houston, Texas in the United States of America. Her ...
Be Positive
“Welcome, take your seat”, Mr. Robert the MD of ‘Proper consultancy’ said to Linda who has been selected to work as the account assistant.Linda ...
Bittersweet
"It started with a margarita," said Matthew.Tilly swirled the tequila and citrus lake in her glass before taking a heartfelt sip over the crusted ...
Bombshells and Lavender
CHAPTER ONE“Yemisi, pack into the store quickly” I heard my mother’s voice. I hastened to bundle the umbrellas that where sampled at the door ...
Buy Now, Pay Later
Brian slugged the dregs of his coffee and flopped the empty mug onto his desk. He rested himself in a slump onto his right ...
Calculated Risk
Sarah barely breathed as she pressed her body further into the wardrobe. Using her fingertips, she slowly pulled the door closed. Through the cracks, ...
Clowning Around
Like most disasters that have occurred in my life, it all started with my sister. It was a crisp Friday afternoon and grey clouds ...
Commuters in Love
Kyle shifted in his seat. Wow, it was uncomfortable. He’d been on this train for ten minutes, and already he could barely stand it. ...
Counting Tiger Lilies
Queen Williams stole a quick glance at the rear mirror before stepping out of her Toyota car, and then gave her long braided hair ...
Crack
Crack. That’s the sound of the chicken’s neck breaking between his two thickly knuckled hands. For their size, their movements are deft - succinct ...
Cutting His Teeth
Yeah, we’re definitely gonna pay off the mortgage. And maybe the student loans. Heck, I might even get my wife that imitation mink I ...
Death of a Grandmother
“Water, water!” The voice from the baby monitor upstairs croaked loudly. I heard it but continued to play with the new monopoly set that ...
Debt Propelled
Back then Rosie enjoyed her Saturdays at home catching up on her study. Sunroom couch. PJs. Laptop. IPod. Periodically her mother, Moira, would wander ...
Depth Analysis
So what do you know son?What do I know?Yes. What do you do for a quid?A quid?A crust.What do I for a crust? I'm ...
Diary of a Destined Nigerian Accountant
Was it me or was it just a failed vision of success. Betty Maxwell sat in her room one evening, after a long day ...
Dolphins Are Tasty
Catherine follows him for three blocks before her gamble pays off. The man finally turns into a dark alley devoid of pedestrians.The man in ...
Entrapped
Louis possessed a good strong figure, tall assertive with a subtle spirit. He worked as an accountant for an insurance company. As the saying ...
Forensic Accounting
I am an accountant. My job is to make sense of other people’s money. Money coming in and money going out. I try to ...
Frankie and the Wolf
For as long as Frankie could remember, she had been shadowed by a stalker. She couldn’t remember a time when he wasn’t with her. ...
Friday, August, 2090. Weather: Sunny
Dear Sammy,Laying on my bed, I am alone and feel like it is a good time to talk to you, Sammy. Even until now, ...
Future Expectation
Sri Lanka is a very beautiful and a very small island, situated in the Indian Ocean. It has a shape of a pearl. That ...
Heart Breaking Shopping Times
Golden colour sun sets in the red and purple colour shaded sky. Birds are flying to their nests. Grey colour atmosphere become cleaned from ...
Heavy Metal
“Is it the copper or the flour? … Or it was those stockings. Nah.” Jamie muttered, purging silence with rankled thoughts.Slight of frame, dressed ...
In Disguise
"Hey! Sam! We are done for the day. Are you coming with us?" one of his colleagues called out. Sam scratched his dark curly ...
It’s Time
By now, Hank was quite ready to fling himself outside the window. The day was stretching out like pasta dough, not to mention, today ...
Jack and the Bean Counter
Jack was no ordinary 12-year-old boy.In fact, his life was about to change forever.Having feasted on fairy tales as a small child, he had ...
Job Transition
A hard kick to solid oak wood slams the front door to an apartment swinging open. The mid-set gentleman is Josh Tales who has ...
Just Another Day Accounting
I look up from my desk at the beige clock hanging on the wall. 12:45 P.M. Fifteen more minutes of making spreadsheets, then it’s ...
Karma
Alice was an anxious woman. She couldn't remember how many situations had turned into the type that she was about to go through again, ...
Life Cycle
“The human life cycle has attracted my curiosity, so the phase one shall begin. Do what I am asking and you will be rewarded. ...
Life, Death and Taxes
Malcolm was looking down at some paperwork when a new client, Mr Hardy, walked in to his office. Clothes rustling like dry leaves announced ...
Love
“Love, the greatest commandment has brought these two to be joined in Holy Matrimony….” The priest’s words seem to fade away as my mind ...
Lucky Bastard!
Rollover night, the nation glued to the box for the Oz Lotto draw. Jocelyn, self-appointed syndicate boss, poured a large Chardonnay, the ‘Chateau Cardboard’ ...
Lucky Number Date
The words bounced between them, rising into a cluster of blazing hot orbs. The couple stood polarizedin their inflexible truth. The inflammatory words above ...
Meeting of Minds
“I’ve done it. I’ve finally realised the asset and it’s over.”Rick was glad. Tom had been shouldering significant impairment loss for some time and ...
Mirror of Roses
The environment made me happy with the freshness of the morning. The sound of the birds entertained me with the joy. Suddenly the rays ...
Mr Gilberry
Mr. Gilberry of Hubert and Thompson accounting firm was a most typical of accountants. If someone were to describe him they would say he ...
Mr Holt’s Magical Duck
Luca Pacioli makes an entranceAlthough I had been in many accounting firms I’d never seen a duck in the office before.“I thought I should ...
My Accountant Husband
I stared at my image in the whorled pool of water that formed from the light rain that had fallen the night before. The ...
My Shadows
“Can you just listen to me for once? Dave please stop this thing you are doing to me, I beg you” Brenda knelt down ...
Night of Masks
Enrique P., a Professor in a well-known university of the capital, and Fabian G., an accountant in one of the Ministries, found themselves one ...
No Accounting for Taste
Tabitha Fletcher wasn't royalty, but she travelled like she was.That was the thought running through Luke Taylor's mind as he watched the private plane ...
Not Stage Centre
Backstage: the only place in the world where you can simultaneously hear the phrase, “Dancers,please put your boobs back in your corsets,” and see ...
NSA
“Nothing depreciates faster than computers and Cadillacs,” quipped the late middle aged man seated across the large square glass coffee table from Mog. When ...
Of Twists and Turns
"Can they do that?"The young lawyer seated at the other end of the table stays quiet as if all the answers are in that ...
On My Way By My Way
Sometimes in life, especially when you are young, you get very anxious and you face with a double bind. This is a question which ...
On-line
I smiled as my next clients hesitantly knocked on my office door.“Please, come in, Mr & Mrs Cartwright.”I absently rubbed the back of my ...
Paradox of Happiness
Never in my life have I thought of other things more important than money…“Hey, you new girl! Over here!”A girl in office attire tries ...
Playing Office Politics
When you visit you’ll be told, “Sit anywhere. No, wait …not there!”Our office furniture might look similar but this one piece, well, something is ...
Previous Flashback
In the unpredictable instance of the expected recovery of a woman lying on a hospital bed; she is plainly normal, breathing steadily; her skin ...
Prodigal Son
“Hey Gran, you’re looking as gorgeous as ever!” Connor kissed Mavis on the cheek. At 20, he was tall but Mavis could still meet ...
QUIET POWER, the invention of accounting
Naoh's youth had passed, mostly stable when it followed the gentle, reliable routine of her village life. Yet the irregular and unpredictable changes from ...
Re-Titled
It was a Friday that could`ve just as well been a Tuesday. Waking up. Having breakfast. Fifteen minutes with the Yoga Channel. Taking the ...
Red and Black
Michael sat down in the middle of the road and began to cry. No, it wasn't particularly dignified but that's just how things ended ...
Red Roses from the Accountant
The River Elbe flowing through Hamburg, joins the hanseatic city to the North Sea. The landscapes of "the Elbe" at night are resplendent. The ...
Salted Caramel
Annabelle Winton was a man-eater. Her freezer shelves were lined with fillets of lawyer, satays of principal and steaks of carpenter, all neatly packed ...
Selfish Wishes
WISH #1 …Leonard twisted the gold ring around his finger, scanning the book open on the desk, trying to ignore the dark red brown ...
Skinny Girls Rock
It was on the news again, another body, another dead girl!!! Just last week, a girl had been found dead in her room, according ...
Success is Finding a Place for Everyone
“Peter? Peter!” Anne called him for breakfast about seven times in a row now. Breakfast was the last thing on his mind. In fact, ...
Suits
Sunlight speeds through the curtain to greet Thabo's face with the morning. He rejects the morning and tosses, the smell of porridge pushes into ...
Taxing Times
Cynthia stared at the blue screen. When John had set up the study for them nearly thirty years ago, it had been green screen ...
That’s Enough
How could we talk about family, family’s all that we got?Everything I went through you were standing there by side, and now you gonna ...
The Accountant
Derek was the epitome of average. He was bland looking, but not so bland that you would notice. However long you looked at him, ...
The Accountant
Three days after the rebel group had barricaded themselves into the old farm someone came knocking on the front door of the main cottage. ...
The Archives
Eric Santanos squinted at the stone structure; the library was bathed in sunlight, making it difficult for anyone to stare at it without squinting. ...
The Art of Covering Your Tracks
Accountancy is not an exciting job. That's obvious enough, right?Well, maybe not. My name is Carl Jennings, and my job is anything but ordinary. ...
The Authors Pen
Dave sat upright in the dining table. His laptop was before him, and the icon was clearly blinking on the Microsoft application. His hands ...
The Bean Counter
Aurelia pulled off her thick black rimmed glasses, polished them on the hem of her navy silk shirt and squinted at the screen. That ...
The Bear
Bear George was walking along the forest-covered hillside bending down from time to time to stir slightly the blackberry bushes. He stopped for a ...
The Cautionary Tale of Mr. and Mrs. Elliot
Sean Eliot is getting a promotion. He's going to get that office with a view and the pay check to go with it.Vivienne was ...
The Danger of Honesty
In the traditional African society, children are regarded as the pride of their parents. A childless marriage is always associated with sorrow and bitterness. ...
The Departure
“Daniel let us pretend that we‟ve never met.” The setting sun and the windy beach left Daniel to be echoed what Amy said when ...
The Dream
Scene OneIt was a midday in the village, Biola has not taken her breakfast. She was waiting for her mother to return from the ...
The Exotics
“I don’t understand why I have been brought here.”“You are a rarity to them - a young captured breeder male from the African Remote ...
The Eyes
You can’t vouch that his life doesn’t depend on the files. Those were the ones that stacked on the corner of the room that ...
The Godzone Project
“Grigori, the framework for the new realm is nearly ready,” called Gabriel. “I need you to sit down with me to go over the ...
The Grand Journey
I was 18 when I bought a classic 1970 Triumph Bonneville 650 motorcycle. She was in shocking condition and every cent I earned from ...
The Haunted Twist
I am an accountant now. So. I thought to remember my childhood memories. It was a hot summer. Our summer holidays had just begun. ...
The Holiday
Whenever the air had that lilt in it, smoky with distant yearning, Blair knew it was time to leave. It was the way of ...
The Inspired Accountant
He slumped into the couch in the centre of the living room. He was numb, eyes glued to the piece of paper he had ...
The Invisible Accountant
A place dim and deadly; a place full of mystery; a place full with strange people, but it is also a place of work ...
The Island’s Secrets
The steward led him to the seat, in the middle of a fat man, with strange eyeglasses like cups of coffee, and a pretty ...
The Lady With The Pram
The engine of My E type roars as I change gears and bring it to a complete stop at the Lights. An old Cyndy ...
The Legend of the Drop Bear
I grew up in Australia. The land of the legendary drop bear. For as long as I can remember the story has been told ...
The Man Who Found Happiness
In the town of Calicut in Kerala there lived an accountant named Mr. Walter with his family. He has a middle class background. He ...
The Missing Clerk
PrologueSomething weird happened few days to the Christmas celebration, dad was suppose to take mum to the grocery shop, help Tom with his homework, ...
The Most Vital Asset
Ezra Hall felt like a deer caught in the headlights as he neared the climax of his speech, knowing the Kawalsky twins from the ...
The Poor Accountant
One Saturday afternoon they had their first date in the city centre. He was a tall, middle-aged and respectable man living not far from ...
The Prayer Wheel
Suzanne was an unlikely provocateur of religious passions. Born a cradle Catholic, she had followed the nuns’ early lessons to a fault. Taught that ...
The Provider
So tired. Bone tired. Arthur wasn't quite sure when tired had become his default feeling. It was as if his internal computer had been ...
The Rupunzel File
I’ve always had a thing for hairy girls. I think it is because of my mother. I remember her rocking me to sleep when ...
The Secret to Success
Standing on the footpath in front of the beautiful old Launceston manor, Sarah Probert couldn’t see what all the fuss was about. A new ...
The Secret to Success – Second Bite
Securing the prize client of E.J. Harris propelled Sarah Probert to accounting stardom at the venerable Launceston firm of Jenkinson, Storm and Kinder.The coup ...
The Vengeance of Yarra
One White Chocolate Mocha Frappucino, please!It was midnight, the moon was emitting an eerie glow, the streets below were desolate, not a soul in ...
The Were Rat
The constant pulse of the train wheels matched the thumping of Emily’s heart. Looking up through the window she watches with trepidation as the ...
The Worlds Best Accountant
There are two aliens sitting at a bar. There’s a mounted TV hanging from the ceiling that they check in with, from time to ...
The Zero Effect
“Tik tuk… tik tuk..tik tukk….” This sound is spread throughout my cabin. It may be disturbed to my mind. “Is the clock mocking me?”I ...
Three Seconds Closer to the Void
He clearly recalled the ten minutes spent in the depth of the sombre graveyard from the outskirts of the city... those seconds of agony ...
To Sacrifice a Marriage for Your Career
Follow your heart where you can find happiness; Follow your soul as you do not want to be an empty shell; Follow the numbers ...
Top of The Ladder
Tasha drops off from the taxi and makes to rush into the building but is halted by the taxi man ‘hey miss, you haven’t ...
True Calling
"Sir, I am being framed. You know me for years now, you seriously believe I can do something this grotesque?"Neha's voice choked as she ...
Twist
I shut my eyes after the roll call had been taken, my cellmate shrugged angrily on seeing her wet mattress. She looked at me ...
Underworld
“You looking at naked women?”Nicholas closed his eyes and returned the photograph of Felicity to beside his computer. He picked up the draft auditing ...
Unheard Mellifluous
“I’m sorry but we need to let you go, we hope that you can find a better job out there,” said Mr Pankerton to ...
Unwin’s Ganger
The city’s spectral lights flashing across his bedroom walls, Unwin followed their progress like the last watcher from a burnt-out planet, surveying the sombre ...
We’re Only Human
The pain shot through me. I couldn’t scream or move. Time had slowed to the point where I was lost in another dimension, only ...
When I Found Myself
Sometimes in life you do not need the close ones to be around for you, just a stranger is enough.She slide off her Persol ...
When Jonesy Met Flavie
He lived up to his regimental name, that’s for sure — the “Devil’s Own”.When young Aussie soldier George Jones, a member of the renown ...