Short Stories
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THE TWO HUNDRED MOONS OF AN IDEA
A film director looses his mind while making a film in London

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MR TEDDY
A girl and her teddy (250 words only)

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DRY FEVER
A Great War tragedy of the trenches involving a poet, an officer and an orderly

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NEVER GO BACK
A young man’s adventure in France and what happens when he revisits years later

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THE TERRIBLE AND BIZARRE DOCUMENT OF MISS BLANCHETTE AND MR LOOPY
A loose rework of Little Red Riding Hood with some bad werewolves and horrible consequences

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HARM
A young boy’s loss of his mother

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THE MIRROR HOUSE
Nutters are at the door

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MEETING AT THE RESTAURANT DANUBA
Living in a Police State

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CHEKHOV’S WIFE
Summers with my Auntie and the impossible postcards of love

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BERGAMOT
Police State paranoia

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COLD HEARTS
A bickering couple and murder and Surrey puma’s

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SMALL AND PERSONAL TREASONS
A married couple and an August holiday in Provence, lavender fields and death

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DOLL
The war has just ended. People are desperate. Two people coming to terms with peace and a third woman with Doll

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CANARY ERROL
Something nasty in the Cellar

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THE GIANT AND THE PRINCESS OF CLOUDS
A Children’s Story: 5-8 years. A Quest. A Princess in a Tower. A City of Clouds