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  • '''The Amazing Arnolfini and His Wife''' was originally written for Task Two of the 2007-8 ''[[SlingInk Eurofiction Competition]]''. The prompt ...uple as the protagonists. Not only have you immediately amplified the need for absolute trust in their relationship, but you also have an opportunity to c
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  • ...As it happened, it failed to make the top 25 that would have been eligible for voting, so that's as far as things got.
    478 bytes (76 words) - 00:56, 20 June 2014
  • '''Bad Grammar''' was originally written for the first round of the 2011 ''[http://www.nycmidnight.com/competitions/twee
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  • ...en by popular vote to be third equal overall out of all the pieces written for ''[[Children in Need]]''. ...og/anatomy-of-a-flash/ blog post] I wrote on the development of this story for ''[http://www.everydayfiction.com/flashfictionblog/ Flash Fiction Chronicle
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  • '''The Magnolia Bedroom''' was originally written for Round Nine of the 2009 ''[[Whittaker Prize]]''. The prompt used was a video
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  • ...Love Story''' was commissioned by ''[http://picfic.wordpress.com PicFic]'' for a slot as their featured contributor in October 2010. I was given an open b
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  • The first version of '''Inbox''' was originally written for the first ''Hint Fiction'' contest in 2009, under the title of ''Portfolio'
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  • '''Perfect Moment''' was originally written for the first round of the 2011 ''[http://www.nycmidnight.com/competitions/twee
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  • ...y an independent judge and a rolling total was kept. Separate competitions for fiction and poetry were run in parallel. In 2013 a '''Not the Whittaker'''
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  • ...t an Amazing Fish'' and 356 words long, was written for the practice night for ''[[Children in Need]]'' later in November 2007, in response to the prompt ...rather than the third, and there isn't much of a background or motivation for the main character.
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  • '''Natural Selection''' was originally written for Task One of the 2007-8 ''[[SlingInk Eurofiction Competition]]''. The prompt ...erfect job, except that in this story, the protagonist had been in the job for some times, only to be stymied by an incompetent superior. Under its new na
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  • '''Think Tank''' was originally written for ''[http://sixsentences.blogspot.co.uk Six Sentences]'', although they clear ...t’s the answer to everything i mean my god i’ve cracked it that’s the cure for aids and cancer and bloody hell i’ve just worked out a workable unified f
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  • ...ond out of three entries, with two votes out of five. It was then expanded for Task One of the 2008-9 ''[[SlingInk Eurofiction Competition]]''. The prompt
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  • '''SlingInk Short Shorts''' was an annual open competition for stories of 100 words or under.
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  • '''Internal Affairs''' was originally written for ''[[Café Doom Flash Challenge]]'' number 126, in August 2008, in response
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  • '''The Birdman of Farringdon Road''' was originally written for Task Three of the 2007-8 ''[[SlingInk Eurofiction Competition]]''. The prom ...ble as a webcast by ''[http://www.shortstoryradio.com Short Story Radio]'' for ''National Short Story Week'' in October 2013. The producer was Ian Skillic
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  • ...tunately, and loses the thing that Barbecue had of being something we take for granted now. There are always compromises to be made, unfortunately.
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  • '''Hidden Shallows''' was originally written for Task Nine of the 2008-9 ''[[SlingInk Eurofiction Competition]]''. The promp I'd been itching to write a story called ''Hidden Shallows'' for some time, although I'd no idea what form it might take. I just liked the i
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  • ''Bootcamp'' used to run an event, open to outsiders, to raise money for ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_in_need BBC Children in Need]''. T
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  • '''Dot Dash''' was my entry for Salt Publishing's Scott Prize in 2010/11. The Scott Prize ran from 2009/10 ...nged to the more prosaic - but way more practical - '''Dot Dash''' in time for publication.
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