Category Archives: stories

Puzzled or intrigued?

Posted on 12/06/2019 by Dr Bob Rich

This is the start of a story that follows on from the end of a previous volume. Until this scene, all the action was on Earth. As the heading shows, we are on a planet in a faraway galaxy. I’d … Continue reading →

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Do you want to read on?

Posted on 03/03/2019 by Dr Bob Rich

This is the start of my current work, the fifth volume of The Doom Healer. I’d be very grateful for your feedback. Even if you know nothing about what went on in the first four volumes, does it grab you? … Continue reading →

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Buddhist equanimity is USEFUL

Posted on 24/02/2019 by Dr Bob Rich

In order to spread the word about my new book, From Depression to Contentment, I am in the process of trawling through my email records to find my psychologist colleagues. In the process, I found this 2014 contribution to the … Continue reading →

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Wait, by Stuart Perkins

Posted on 22/02/2019 by Dr Bob Rich

I’m watching from my window today. For a few minutes more, at least. Saturday errands call, but right now the view into the garden has my willpower paralyzed. Soothed by the peaceful nothingness happening out there, I stare blissfully through … Continue reading →

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HIG: the new energy source

Posted on 07/12/2018 by Dr Bob Rich

Other stories © Dr Bob Rich & Anina Rich When my daughter Anina was still a schoolkid, she and I wrote this story together, and entered it in a contest. It won first prize, earning us a solar cooker, which … Continue reading →

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Pip’s call to action

Posted on 28/10/2018 by Dr Bob Rich

Stephanie Black has posted a long and thoughtful comment to How to change the world. I have learned some of the answers to her questions from Pip Lipkin, who is the hero of my novel, Ascending Spiral. Here is how … Continue reading →

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Tension

Posted on 20/10/2018 by Dr Bob Rich

Other essays in Rhobin’s Rounds The water is so cold! Liquid ice flows into Heather’s mouth, into her lungs as she gasps from the shock of immersion in freezing fire. Her head is within the black depths, and a terrible … Continue reading →

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Pay it Forward, by Skye Taylor

Posted on 06/10/2018 by Dr Bob Rich

Other stories Lucas Trevlyn clung to the wrong side of the railing, looking down at the passing traffic more than forty feet below, trying to find the courage and conviction that had brought him to this place. His heart pounded … Continue reading →

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Propping Up Virtue

Posted on 10/09/2018 by Dr Bob Rich

My No. 8 speech to Lilydale Toastmasters Madam Toastmaster, Ladies and Gentlemen, this is a PROP. A clothes prop. It is as much an icon of Australia’s past as the outdoor dunny, and the travelling salesman. Before the invention of … Continue reading →

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Deer don’t have headlights

Posted on 21/08/2018 by Dr Bob Rich

Edsel Murphy was seven years old when his family migrated from Ireland to the USA. He became an engineer — indeed, a Professor of Engineering at MIT, the top engineering school in the world. He wrote a textbook on overengineering, … Continue reading →