BLACK HOLE, SILVER LINING
is a collection of short stories. The first, "Flight from Mariupol" won the Thames Valley Writers' Circle short story competition. Short-story supremo Iain Pattison, said it was a story he "wished he'd written himself". The other stories are set in the UK. They include:
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The inspiration for many of these stories was the collapse of our kitchen ceiling. Fortunately it happened during a hot spell; we were eating in the garden at the time (and for some weeks to come). But it gave us unexpected access to newspapers from a long time ago. And prompted various questions as to what else might have turned up.
The incident coincided with the summer homework for our Writers' Circle: make up a short story which includes six specified words. It is left as an exercise to the reader (a) to identify the six stories I wrote in response to this; and hence (b) to deduce the six words making up the homework. The golfing stories mostly arose from ideas during my summer hacking round local pay and play courses with an old friend. The remaining stories were further adventures for characters who had already appeared in my earlier stories. |