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• The Guitarist’s Inheritance
  '''The Guitarist’s Inheritance''' was originally written for Task Six of the 2007-8 ''[[SlingInk Eurofiction Competition]]''. The prompt ...rite about. The emotion's already programmed in. Unless you're going to go for a completely new angle, you're pretty much wasting your time. So I'm still
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• Opposites
  ...it up, reducing the word count to 12 so that it would fit the requirements for the ''[http://www.vestalreview.net Vestal Review]'' ''Dirty Dozen'', where
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• Breathe In, Breathe Out
  ...x Keegan]] was the judge for a competition I'd recently submitted an entry for.
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• Verulam Writers' Circle
  I was a member on and off for over twenty years, including a disastrous two-year reign as chairman, until They run a number of annual internal competitions, three of which are for fiction:
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• Convalescence
  ...e for the competition was ''Vision''. I'm not entirely sure where the idea for the story actually came from, but looking back on it, it's pretty obvious t ...proofreading. When I heard that I'd been shortlisted - and hence eligible for the anthology - it was pointed out to me that there was one phrase that did
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• Frogs
  '''Frogs''' was originally written for ''[[Café Doom Flash Challenge]]'' number 85, in November 2007, in response
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• How I Became a New Man and What Good It Did Me
  '''How I Became a New Man and What Good It Did Me''' was originally written for the ''[[Verulam Writers' Circle]]'' ''President's Competition'', where the ...r, contain the bare bones of a half-decent idea, which I went on to re-use for Task Seven of the 2007-8 ''[[SlingInk Eurofiction Competition]]''. The prom
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• Tribute Act
  ...w is that there were 48 entries and mine was not one of the three selected for a prize.
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• Piss and Patchouli
  '''Piss and Patchouli''' was originally written for Round Three of the 2008 ''[[Whittaker Prize]]''. The prompt used was the ph After a minor edit, '''Piss and Patchouli''' was longlisted for the September 2008 ''Cadenza'' competition.
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• Café Doom
  ...ants. The numbers involved can be tiny, but it's none the less competitive for that. Several of my favourite pieces have come out of this.
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• RZr and Napoleon
  '''rZr and Napoleon''' was originally written for Round Two of the 2009 ''[[Whittaker Prize]]''. The prompt used was a music ...r vs Napoleon''). It was also one of 20 shortlisted, under its final name, for the third ''[http://www.bristolprize.co.uk Bristol Short Story Prize]'' in
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• Misunderstandings
  ...en hacked to 50 words and temporarily re-titled ''The Misunderstood Gift'' for the same year's ''Charnwood Arts MiniWords Competition''. It duly clocked u
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• Possible Side Effects
  '''Possible Side Effects''' was originally written for Task Eight of the 2007-8 ''[[SlingInk Eurofiction Competition]]''. The prom ...there was only one way the story could end. So that's where I started it. For the actual writing process, however, I wrote it in chronological order - ge
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• So What Are You Up To These Days?
  '''So What Are You Up To These Days?''' was written specifically for ''[http://sixsentences.blogspot.co.uk Six Sentences]'' as an exercise in se ...end at a college reunion who was now working on something seriously secret for the US government. I began to wonder (as you do) what would it be like if h
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• The Last Words of Emanuel Prettyjohn
  '''The Last Words of Emanuel Prettyjohn''' was originally written for Round Eight of the 2008 ''[[Whittaker Prize]]''. The prompt used was the ph
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• Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions
  '''Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions''' was originally written for Round Four of the 2008 ''[[Whittaker Prize]]''. The prompt used was the phr ...en I was frantically casting around for something to base my manuscript on for my MA at Bath Spa University, I suddenly remembered this story. In the spac
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• After the Rapture
  '''After the Rapture''' was written for ''[http://tweetthemeat.blogspot.co.uk Tweet the Meat]'' in response to the
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• Somewhat Less Than Thirty Pieces
  '''Somewhat Less Than Thirty Pieces''' was originally written for Task Nine of the 2007-8 ''[[SlingInk Eurofiction Competition]]''. The promp '''Somewhat Less Than Thirty Pieces''' was longlisted for the March 2008 ''Cadenza'' competition.
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• Advice re Elephants
  '''Advice re Elephants''' was originally written for Round Nine of the 2010 ''[[Whittaker Prize]]'', albeit in the ''poetry'' se Duly reworked as a short story, '''Advice re Elephants''' was shortlisted for the 2010 ''[http://www.munsterlit.ie/SOF%20Page.html Seán Ó Faoláin Comp
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• A Plague of Yellow Plastic Ducks
  '''A Plague of Yellow Plastic Ducks''' was originally written for Round Eight of the 2008 ''[[Whittaker Prize]]''. The prompt used was the ph ...me realising until I Googled it just now. However, another major influence for the story (and indeed its title) is the work of the anthropologist [http://
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