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Issue #8

16/1/2021

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Content
A Blanket of Stars by Georgia Cook
The Inheritance by Graham Crisp
The Present by Peter Hankins
Chance Encounter by Jeff Jones
Command by Ian Tew
The New Guy by Cindy Pereira
A Moment of Introspection by Madelaine Taylor
Cash or Claret by Colin Ward
The Returners by Liz Breen
Friederike by Mark Harbinger
Mountain by Soren Petrek
When to Err is not Human by Dipayan
Holiday of a Lifetime by Elaine Peters 
Crocodile Tears by Felicity Edwards
Bell Bottoms and Beer by Cindy Pereira
Carnaby St Boutique by Steve Goodlad
Bearly Dry by Madelaine Taylor
Mr Patel’s Shop by Graham Crisp
The Rescue by Hilary Taylor 
Raisins and Rum by Cindy Pereira
Reality, What A Concept by Bud Scott
Love and Sparkles by Hilary Taylor
Plenty by Miriam H Harrison
Tough Cookie by Liz Breen
A Drink After Work by Graham Crisp
An Easy Mistake by Rachel Smith
Dreaming of You by Steve Goodlad
Beads of Gold by Eva Bell
Hunger by Caitlin Magnall-Kearns
Bride to Be R.T. Hardwick

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Issue #7

10/12/2020

 
Content
Kings and Pawns by Dutch Simmons (£20.00)

Murderous Intent by Jeff Jones
The Day With The Birds by Liz Breen
Something Fishy Going On by Adele Evershed
The Ransom Note by Steve Goodlad
Wilhelmina Turns Eighty by Anita Gorman
Mavis’s Cosy Christmas Cottage by Jon Hunter
The Tap by Beverley Byrne
Forever Gone by Hilary Taylor
A Party? by Felicity Edwards
Bloodrite by Dean Hodsfry
A Red Breakfast by Graham Crisp
The Perfect Date by Hilary Taylor
The Wedding Dress by Elizabeth O'Shea
The Last Time by Pat Mudge
First Kiss by Andrew Ball
Imaginary Friends by Andrew Ball
On The Meeting of Two Minds by Ronald T Hardwick
Mixed Signals Or Moonbeams Steve Lodge
The Making by Madelaine Taylor
DIY by Andrew Ball
Exuding Chripiness by Jonathan Hunter
Gargoyles by Stephen Isle
Home Remedies by Eva Bell
Glass by John Morris
One Each by Andrew Ball
Mask Dilemma by Elaine Peters
One More Week by Liz Breen
Christmas Cheers by Elaine Peters
Cloak of the Wizard by Steve Lodge
Where Do We Go When We Die? By Matt Allen
The Mourner by Hilary Taylor
The Visit by Graham Crisp
Faces of Home by Michelle Weaver
Sorry by Elaine Peters
Bob & Phyllis by Liz Breen
The Apology by Graham Crisp
The Phone Call by Elaine Peters
The Plan by Hilary Taylor
The Big Issue by Steve Goodlad
Shielding by Graham Crisp
The Avenging Ghost by Eva Bell
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Issue #6

10/11/2020

 
Contents
Footsteps by Savanna Naylor  (October Winner £30.00)

Weather Report by Paul Garson
Bartlett, The Dog and the old Sailor by Ronald Hardwick
The Post-Lockdown Holiday by David A Jones
The Best Jest by Shelley Crowley
Phil in Real Life by Sam Szanto
Evergreen by Samantha Priestley
The Secret To Staying Young by Saul Greenblatt
Volume Control by Grace Tierney
Hologram Futures by Alyson Hilbourne
The Grief Eater by Christina MacKinnon
Monster Under the Bed by Patricia Green
Roisin's Party by James Ellson
The Full Moon by Dipayan Chakrabarti
A Little Hard Work by Carrie Hynds
Log Me In by Paul Warnes
Delight in Every Bite by Nathalie Roos
First Impressions by Jeff Jones
What's In A Name? by Ian Inglis
I'll See You When I Get There by Thomas Morgan
Double Trouble by Vivienne Moles
Number 69 by Eve Naden
The Healing Stone by Katie Winkler
Beached by Maisie Bishop
The Queen of the Forest by Renee Gerald
The Winter Tree by The Somnambulist Society
The Hourglass by Madelaine Taylor
I Don’t Like Cheats by Patsy Collins
Mrs Stepney's Stepdaughter by Betty Hasler
Isodel by Darren Smith
All Hallows Eve by Jane Bidder
Eve by Hilary Davies
Pas De Deux Redux by Adele Evershed
The Thing by Taqwa
A Helping Hand by Christina Westwood
Come the Morning Stars by Conor O’Sullivan
Interconnected by Ena Catlin
Watching by Natasha Weber
​Quantum Entanglement by Ingrid Wilson
How I Lost My Lover by Liz O’Shea
Misty Mountain Feliz Piez
Washing Up RJ Gardham
The Wanderer by BC Nwata
Dusk Hound by Sylvie Edwards
The Greater Handful by Stephen Goodlad
Cherie by Paul Warnes
Letting Go by Carrie Hynds
After the Lockdown by Sabdapalan
The Eye of the Shrike by Crescentia Morais
Peace in Our Time by Eve Naden
Rounded Over by M H Pitcher
Broken by Allison Xu
Autumn Equinox by Hilary Taylor
Cursed by the Sun by Hope Nguyen
Autumnal Muse by Yasmin Nabavi
Bloodbath by Stephen Goodlad
No Longer Mine by Amy B. Moreno
Bloodbath by Emma Rainsford
Clean Break by Ivan Skilling
​Clean Break by Andrew Ball
No Son of Mine by Ivan Skilling
Table for One by Vera West
Table for One Jonathan Hunter
Table for One Marian Myers
Table for One by Lorna Ye
Garden of Bones by Lorna Ye
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Issue #5

30/10/2020

 
Contents
A Charmed Life by Patsy Collins (September Winner £30.00)

The Suitcase by Maddy Allen
Alpha to Zulu: Alphabet Phonetic Frolics by Jolie Marchant
Letting Go by Kate MacWhannell
I Lost My Wife Down the Back of the Sofa by Brian G Ross
Something Comes to Live in Vincent Van Gogh's House by Sobia Ali
The Ritual by Vaibhav Sharma
Little Miss Perfect by Dorothy Snelson
Waiting by Jeff Jones
A Merry Encounter by Donna Hughes
Blossom Time by James Ellson
The Bird and the Riley by David Crozier
Last Chance by Sonia Mehta
The Near Demise of Old Norm by Rachel Wade
On Rings of Fire by Dipayan Chakrabarti
In Conclusion by Lou Hoffman
Communal Gardening by Stef Smulders
The Three Little Pigs Meet Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Anita Gorman
The Housefly by David Butler
A Moment by Josie Turner
Chop Wood Carry Water by Feliz Piez
After the Last Guest Left by Barbara Zapson
Beta Testing by Stephen Hosking
Ballroom Dancer by Felicity Edwards
Falling Light by Debbie Robson
Blackberry and Apple by Andrew Ball
Dead Fast by Stephen Foster-Pilkington
Telepathic Drugless Therapy by Eva Bell
Stolen Warmth by JY Saville
Nifty Fifty Winning Entries x 15
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Issue #4

30/9/2020

 
Contents
Sabrina's Rising by Cheryl Burman (August Winner £30)

First Climb of the Season by D.M Kerr
Calm Evening - River Wind by Thomas Elson
Vergence by Stephen Lisle
Puzzle Box by Bob Carlton
The Bright Side by Ophelia Clare
A Change of Luck by Jeff Jones
For Whom The Hands Clap by Fiona Murphy-McCormack
The Cardinal Sins by JB Polk
Most Marriages Performed by Leah Holbrook Sackett
Special Recollections by Bryan Smith
Fifty Ways to Leave your Lover by Andrew Ball
Yogurt Man Street by J. Anthony Hartley
The Well by Patricia Furstenberg
Bapaume III by Nick Fraser
No Longer by  Emily Kate Hastings
Grace's High Note by  Philip Charter
No Regrets by  Felicity Edwards
The One that Got Away by Malina Douglas
Rosalyn Tempest by John Jones
I Fear Myself by Kurt Russell
Black Money Matters by Antonio Salituro
Agility by Stef Smulders
A Smouldering Secret by Amy B. Moreno
Johnny by Steven Evans
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Issue #3

13/7/2020

 
Contents
Mother by Michelle Hendriks (July Winner £30)

The Man in the Living Room by Rodrigo Palacios
The Believer by Warren Benedetto
The Interview by Philip Jones
A New Friend by Emily Dixon
The Cat by Brian Skinner
The Elephant in the Black Hole by Crescentia Morais
Bridges Are Beginning to Ice Over by Bob Carlton
The Art of Almost by Natascha Graham
The Online Death of Gerald Thorne by Lisa M Lane
Elisha's Game by Harlan Wells
First Snow Day by Chloe Winterburn
Bones by Raluca Comanelea
Career Girl by Jean Cooper Moran
House 147 by Nate Ealy
The Lady in White by Jeff Jones
Creeper by James Ellson
New Beginnings by Jennifer Anne F. Messing
Cherry by John Jones
The Shame Game by Amy B. Moreno
Death is Nothing by Andrew Ball
Little Wooden Boxes by Alex Rollings
The Cottonwood Tree by Rachel Tyrrel
Have You Seen This Man? by C.E. Tidswell
The Oasis by AS Winter
Amber Night Tattoo by Malina Douglas
When Did It Get Dark? by E.I.Q
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Issue #2

30/5/2020

 
Contents
Equal Rights by Andrew Ball, USA (May Winner)
We Still Don’t Use the Garage by S J Townend, UK (June Winner)
The Funeral Procession by Robert Raymer, Malaysia
Don't Turn Around by Alexander Gerolimatos, USA
The Glitch by Vaibhav Sharma, India
Caught in a False Sunbeam by Roghan David Aran Duggan Metcalf, Netherlands
Failing by Ruth Makepeace, UK
Homecoming by David Darling, Canada
Speech! Speech! by Andrew Galvin, UK
Love Letters by Adesola Adewale, UK
Euthanasia by Pragya Rathore, India
Out of the Flow by Dharmavadana Penn, UK
Memory by Matthew Thorpe-Apps, UK
The Mystery of the White Ghost at Chrisard School by Anna Jozefowicz, Argentina
Leviathan by Owen Reilly, Scotland
A Discovery/Saying Goodbye by Emily Dixon, UK
Lord Old Timer by Robin Mortimer, UK
After Life by Hannah Burgess, Australia
Dead on Time by Jeff Jones, UK
The Queen's Attendant by Catherine McCarthy, UK
The Key by Victoria Huggins , UK
The War and the Wall by MacKenzie Tastan, USA
A Lantern; A Knife by Philip Charter, UK
Tattoos by Martin Flett, UK
Little Dove by Shelley Crowley, UK
Letters Home by Daniel Clark, UK
Morning Coffee by Susan Hoffmann, UK
Rise and Set and Rise Again by Jenni Cook, USA
Layover by Rebecca Redshaw, USA
October October by Andrew Ball, USA
Unheard by Lois Chapin, USA
Cross the Eyes by Josh Cassidy, UK
Escape and Evade by Jeff Jones, UK
In the Footsteps of the Paediatrician by Liz Berg, UK
Forbidden by Meg Isaac, UK
Love by Edward Breen, UK
Memory Stones by Chloe Winterburn, Wales
No More Heroes by Melanie Roussel, UK
Discovery by David Darling, Canada
The Year of the Dying Fish by JB Polk, Chile
Opal by Jessica Disney, UK
The Difference Between My Father and My Mother by Robert Raymer, Malaysia
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Issue #1

1/5/2020

 
Contents
Podsnezhniki by Anita Davie, UK (March Winner £25)
The Wait by Jeff Jones, UK (April Winner £25)
Another Day At The Office by Seamus Easton, Canada
Antartica Origins by Joanna MacInnes
Cousins by Wan Phing Lim, Malaysia
Famous by Jacqui Jay Grafton, UK
George Polishes Up by Ian C Douglas, UK
Gone Viral by Jacqueline Harrett, Wales
Graffiti by Cathy Bryant, UK
It Starts With A Train by Magdalene Bird, UK
Monkey Beach by Robert Raymer, Malaysia
The Accidental Jesus by James Stark, USA
The Broken Doll by Alice Prior, USA
Thunder Flies by Jeremy Hubbard , UK
Weaving the Magic by Robert Scott, UK
Consequences by Dave Darling, Canada
Your Favourite Dolly by Tesni Penney, UK
For Better, For Worse by Catherine Ogston, UK
A Trace of Red by Clare Adams, Denmark
A Nice Bit of Tongue by Karon Alderman, UK
Hello, You by Philip Charter, UK
Potted Bavaria by Sheila Kinsella, Belgium
The Things We Left Behind by Michael Lacare, USA
The Man in Black by Morgan Brennan, UK
So Close by Tracy Stevenson, UK
The Suitcase by Maddy Allen, UK
Lockdown: One Good Deed by Mary Macread, UK
Betrayal in a Shade of White by Emma Cooper, Scotland
Her Brother’s Friend by J. L. Harland, Wales
Tight Corners by Kathleen Kenny, UK
Koi by Nadia Mikail, Malaysia
Howl by Shaun Calvert, UK
Kelsey by Robert Boucheron, USA
A Campfire Story by Mike Noyes, USA
Stars by Abigail Green, UK
Parts by Alexander Mo, UK
The Songs of my Sister by Kathy Hoyle, UK
Hilarity Paling by Alex Bestwick, UK
Trapped by Patricia Cole, Greece
The Change by Liz Berg, UK
Grasses by Alex Barr, Wales
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