Short Stories
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Open Pen - issue 3 - Open Pen - Open Pen's third issue contains an interesting editorial from Joe Borges about the importance of literature as a shared experience - the printed word is not dead! 'Stories' by Eddie Wilson explores a writer who has been tasked with collecting the anecdotes of residents of a decrepit housing... |
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Anniversary of Infiniteness - Derek Keeping - A collection of sci-fi short stories, some deep, some light hearted, spread over many possible realities, exploring the meaning of life, love, and change. Why do some things remain permanent while others alter in an instant in our ever expanding disposable world? What can happen to us to alter... |
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Short Stories - Zvi Zaks - A collection of two short stories by Zvi Zaks. The first, The Taxbell, is set in a future where we are taxed according to how much pleasure we enjoy: "George fidgeted before checking the daily reading on the dreaded meters; to his dismay, the twenty-four hour total stood at 66 units... |
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Open Pen - issue 4 - Open Pen - Open Pen's fourth issue starts with an editorial from second-hand book store owner Sebastian Sandys about the motivations for writing and thrill of being published. This edition has four short stories. The first, Kate Ellis' 'Lazylegs', brings a tremble to the knees. Next Darren Lee gives us a... |
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Caged View - Kenya Wright - Caged View is an urban fantasy short story collection. The first three short stories are told from the view point of different characters from Kenya Wright's novel Fire Baptized, and serve as its prequel. In 'Love lost, Love found' MeShack goes in search of his mother... |
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One Minute After - Eric Diehl - An anthology of horror, science fiction and fantasy; some dark and some light, but all a challenge to your imagination. We will begin with an experiment in nano-biotechnology gone very wrong, and, if you do not perish in transit, end in a desperate alternate reality on Olde Aearth; emerging with... |
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The Silver Collar - Kate Policani - I don't remember my life before I came to Mistress. I know I did not come to be when I first looked in her face, but that is all I remember of my life. |
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Open Pen - issue 5 - Open Pen - Open Pen's fifth issue starts with an editorial from Owen Jones, author of Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class, that suggests writers are just well intentioned scribblers rather than major protagonists in social change. |
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Short Story Collection - Mark Goodwin - A collection of three short stories by Mark Goodwin. 'Ziggy Two Step - Courier Extraordinaire' is oblivious to most of what is happening around him even though he is often the cause of it - who would ever have imagined that being a bicycle courier could be so exciting, dangerous and demanding? '... |
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Bacharach's Bungalow - Morris Kenyon - His name was Spurt Bacharach; most famous now for 'Donna Does Doncaster', a low budget Seventies rip-off that became a surprise cult hit. |
