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• Making Conversation
  '''Making Conversation''' was written for 2009 ''[http://tweetthemeat.blogspot.co.uk Tweet the Meat]'' Halloween cont
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• Surveillance
  ...veillance''' came from, but I'm fairly certain it was specifically written for ''[http://shineanthology.wordpress.com/outshine-submission-guidelines/ Outs
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• After Michelangelo
  '''After Michelangelo''' was originally written for the 2004 ''[[Verulam Writers' Circle]]'' ''David Gibson Cup'' competition, A staged version of '''After Michelangelo''' was developed for ''[http://dasher.wix.com/obstacleproductions#!__obstacle Obstacle Productio
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• Sidelong
  '''Sidelong''' was originally written for the first round of the 2010 ''[http://www.nycmidnight.com/competitions/twee
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• Nature’s Banquet
  ...commented that the risky second person perspective made it very difficult for the reader to know the protagonist. He also pointed out that slipping into ...ppy about is Bonzo the dog. I should have come up with a more neutral name for him.
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• Proper Job
  '''Proper Job''' was originally written for ''[http://www.txtlit.co.uk txtlit]'', in response to the theme ''Gold'', in
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• Steaming
  ...it until ''[http://thaumatrope.greententacles.com Thaumatrope]'' re-opened for submissions, as I was very keen to be published by them. ...greententacles.com Thaumatrope]'', on January 30th, 2010. I got paid $1.20 for it, which amounts to 7¢ a word.
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• Mr Nathwani’s Haiku
  '''Mr Nathwani’s Haiku''' was originally written for the 2007 ''[[Verulam Writers' Circle]]'' ''Crystal Decanter Competition'', ...(I think) to work on the railways there, and the idea of the wife yearning for African skies came from a chap at a client of mine who came out with a stor
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• The Experiment
  '''The Experiment''' was originally written for the final round of the 2011 ''[http://www.nycmidnight.com/competitions/twee
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• Return to Cairo
  '''Return to Cairo''' was originally written for Round Five of the 2009 ''[[Whittaker Prize]]''. The prompt used, believe it ...certainly an influence on the central idea of creating an artificial world for the benefit of someone, although in this case, it turns out that it's not a
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• Under the Statue
  ...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.
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• The Amazing Arnolfini and His Wife
  '''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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• Bad Grammar
  '''Bad Grammar''' was originally written for the first round of the 2011 ''[http://www.nycmidnight.com/competitions/twee
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• Canine Mathematics
  ...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
  '''The Magnolia Bedroom''' was originally written for Round Nine of the 2009 ''[[Whittaker Prize]]''. The prompt used was a video
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• Inbox
  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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• Love Story
  ...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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• Perfect Moment
  '''Perfect Moment''' was originally written for the first round of the 2011 ''[http://www.nycmidnight.com/competitions/twee
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• The Write Idea
  ...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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• Fishermen’s Tales
  ...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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• Think Tank
  '''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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• Natural Selection
  '''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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• Mirror, Mirror
  ...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
  '''SlingInk Short Shorts''' was an annual open competition for stories of 100 words or under.
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• Internal Affairs
  '''Internal Affairs''' was originally written for ''[[Café Doom Flash Challenge]]'' number 126, in August 2008, in response
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• The Problem With Pork
  ...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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• The Birdman of Farringdon Road
  '''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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• Hidden Shallows
  '''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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• Alex Keegan's Bootcamp
  ''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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• Anniversary Feast
  '''Anniversary Feast''' was originally written for ''[[Café Doom Flash Challenge]]'' number 96, in February 2008, in response
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• Dot Dash
  '''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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Frogs
  '''Frogs''' was originally written for ''[[Café Doom Flash Challenge]]'' number 85, in November 2007, in response
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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Less Than Deadly
  ''Less Than Deadly''' was written for ''[http://tweetthemeat.blogspot.co.uk Tweet the Meat]'' in response to the
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• Not So Much a Rough Guide
  ...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. ...them, although Ben White, the editor, suggested that it might be suitable for ''[http://picfic.wordpress.com PicFic]''. Oddly enough, by the time I'd sub
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• At Nana’s
  '''At Nana's''' was originally written for the 2007 ''Bournemouth Festival Erotic Writing Competition''. ...too good for me to pass over, so I leapt at the chance to write something for this one. The winners were invited to "an erotic party and prize giving", a
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• Pulse
  '''Pulse''' was originally written for the first round of the 2010 ''[http://www.nycmidnight.com/competitions/twee
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• Farewell Symphony
  '''Farewell Symphony''' was originally written for Round One of the 2009 ''[[Whittaker Prize]]''. The prompt used was a pictur ...tory, and I finally fixed it just after ''[[Dot Dash]]'' had been accepted for publication. All I needed to do was remove the last sentence:
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