50 short stories. Some might turn out to be short enough to border on flash fiction but I hope you find any you choose to read a good read. If you do, let me know - and let me know if you don't. From LitCrit to tutored scorn, your feedback will be read, treasured and wept over/laughed at.
Though free to download, read and share, a word on copyright. All the stories, for good or ill, are all my own work and if you use any somewhere, somehow, for financial gain or kudos (!) without my permission and agreed cut, I'll invoke a curse or lawyer to lay on you.
WEEK 1 MY RIGHT
Above the doorway to King's Manor in York, is the coat of arms of the British monarch and beneath it 'DIEU ET MON DROIT' (GOD AND MY RIGHT). Most people miss the small detail of the backwards N. Why a backwards N?
Clean, pure, bubbly life. Poets love it.
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WEEK 3 MUSEUM DISNEY
Where do writers get their inspiration? The Castle Museum in York? That was the plan.
WEEK 4 SOMEBODY ELSE
People like routine, there's comfort in it. When it's interrupted, some carry on, some don't.
WEEK 5 THE JESUS TOAST
When you're young, it's hard to see yourself getting old. When you're old, it's hard to think about being young.
WEEK 6 STOCKWELL AT 8
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there".
L. P. Hartley's The Go-Beween provides in this one sentence the most beautiful opening I have ever read. My own bemusement is far less elegant but as deeply felt.
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WEEK 7 STARDOM
On the borders of entertainment and the virtual world.
WEEK 8 LONG TEN
WEEK 9 LAST OF SPRINGS
WEEK 10 OUT WEST
Holly had a cowboy heart. In post-war Vienna, it's difficult to think right, do right or be right. But if it's in the heart, can it ever be wrong?
WEEK 11 NO FIVE
No downloads, it's in the post...
WEEK 12 BACK EAST
Holly heads for the pond and discovers how so much has changed to stay so much the same.
WEEK 13 THE BONDUCA
Holly leaves the new world for the old.
WEEK 14 VIENNA
What happened to Holly in Vienna.
WEEK 15 ON THE PULL
Mating rituals. Ploys. Stratagems. Success. Failure. What's it all for?
