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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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Anniversary Feast
  '''Anniversary Feast''' was originally written for ''[[Café Doom Flash Challenge]]'' number 96, in February 2008, in response
  914 bytes (147 words) - 08:58, 20 June 2014
• 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
  915 bytes (142 words) - 00:31, 20 June 2014
• 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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