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Another Place To Die

by Sam North

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Curse of the Nibelung
A Sherlock Holmes Mystery

by Sam North -
'Chocolate will never seem the same again'
Sunday Express


New Original Fiction From All Around The World
This Archive from 1999-2007 - Now there is also
Dreamscapes 2 for 2007/8

2007
Regrets
Andrea Moser
collects Bukowski reject slips
Old Fighting Men
Quentin Bates
in the tearoom
Over the hill
Quentin Bates
Icelandic mystery
'Thank you for driving carefully through our town...'
Grace -
A Texas girl remembered
Martin Green
The Decision
Martin Green on life choices
Street Spirit
Ben Gerhardt
Sometimes we regret
Afrique - l'heure bleue
Maja Hagborg
It's a Mutt's World
Nickolay Todorov

When dogs love chickens
People of the Ice and Snow
Caitlin Metland
When the white men come run
Dying Wish
Wesley Weyers -
heaven on earth
Echoes of a funeral drum
Mary Opaluwa
Baba and I were at the Lokongoma crossroads to perform the sacrifice which Noka’s life depended on
Damien- an exorcism
Tom Over -
life in Amsterdam
From The Horse's Mouth
Welsey Weyers
about a mugging
The Camel
Subimal Misra (translated by V Ramaswamy)
- trying to have the perfect dream?
Starfish
Janel Atwork
Trust him?
Trains Doors Open
Joanna Valevich -
a missed opportunity?
Crossing into Death
Joanna Valevich
on an icy road
Emma's Dilemma
Lalita Kakanadan goes on-line to find a man
Friendship and College Days
David Tavernier
on finding girls
Parents on Good & Bad
David Tavernier

Dating Kate
Martin Green
on relationships
Brushstrokes with time
Steven Bush

Salvage Rights
Richard Corwin
in the Turk Islands
Hedera
Anna J G Smith
on the ring that binds
Conkers
Quentin Bates
The only time for a raid was a Sunday morning
Dead Sheep
Frances Lewis
The grass makes my feet itch
The Yellow Triangle
Michael Internicola
Hash and I cut through the fog coming into Barcelona
Naggerbag
Wendy Metcalfe -
Kids go wild on Albert Street
Sniff
Duncan Dicks - I thought she was out of my league
Under the Covers
Ali Shaw
- I had stopped sobbing now.

Observation
Jodie Corney
Kimberley Morgan is laughing too loudly at a joke
Fickle Finger
Colin Harris
on Gulf War One
Shomoy Duhshomoy
(Time, Bad Times)
Subimal Misra – Translated by V Ramaswamy

The Pringle Method
Martin Green
Crisis in the office
Uncle Pringle and the Witch’s Curse
Martin Green
“Are you all right?” she asked.
“Yeah, just another little accident.   They’ve been happening all this month.   It’s because I’ve been cursed.”
Old in His Own Way
Mike Blake
To make the same mistake twice is failure...

Firetrap
David Francis
You can’t be knocked into the middle of next week
Frederick and Millie
Alison Shaw -
A date for the Matinee
Y2K
Paul Martin
Everything had been prepared at the Hospital Records Library months ahead of the chaos...
Making it
Mark Cunliffe
I’ll make it
The man was running, fast and hard, his heart in his mouth and his lungs ablaze, he tore through the undergrowth ignoring the long stinging nettles that attacked his entire frame...
Knowing
Sheila Levin on marriage
There are, as Laura would put it, moments in time which are remembered with scrupulous precision.  The millions of housewives who were washing dishes when they heard the news bulletin that President Kennedy was shot can tell you the dish they were holding.
An Evening Out
Gina Robertson
Where does all the love go when someone dies? Mum said I was the best thing she ever did. I was loved with such a fierce burning love that sometimes I got scorched.
Elin's Legacy
Wendy Metcalfe
Making contact with a class one alien
After The Winter
Mike Blake
Clapton singing Have You Ever Loved a Woman in his head, a half pint of cheap vodka in his pocket; it’s all he needs to cap this hot Memorial Day weekend in his home town
Sons Martin Green
The first thing Paul's wife Sally said to him when he came through the door was, "Jack has another problem."

The Twins
Richard Corwin
The Church
Benjamin Gerhardt

A soldier's return

Three Little Words
Lauren Almey
can't sleep
My Own Eureka Moment
Lauren Almey gets a grip
The Paperclip Counter
J Giles
with insights into business efficiency
Down to the Attic
M. Joseph Hunt

A Deadly Monday
Richard Corwin
Humiliation has it's own reward
Homecoming
Maggie Tiojakin
Why come home now? What was her name?
The Summer Job
Martin Green on the best of times
The Journey
Mark Cunliffe
some things in life remain with you for always
Blueberry Hill
Raymond K Clement goes picking berries
My First Love
Sidi Benzahra
Bus boy's have feelings too
The Money Tree by Subimal Misra
Translated by V Ramaswamy

Beggars come across a dead white donkey...
The Winged Ones by Joginder Paul
Translated from Urdu by V Ramaswamy
All’s well here. Best wishes for your honour’s well being. Writing a letter to his old friend Fazaldin

Writer's Block
Mark Cunliffe
in detention with Guy Block
Head on the Block
Mark Cunliffe -
Guy Block is in big trouble
Soviet Block -
man without trousers
Mark Cunliffe
Chips off the Block
Mark Cunliffe
- Guy has his turn with the twins
One in Eleven
Mathew Kaufman -
pick up in Soho
Three Men and a Gob of Spit
Peter Leonowitz
a bet too far
The Old Lady of San Pedro
G David Schwatz
on loss and madness
Train Confessions
Jeannie Mark
lost in thought
Summer of Sadness
Colin Todhunter
I couldn't hold on to her
Booboola- the black dog
Sidi Cherkawa Benzahra
good dog-bad dog
Memory Block
Mark Cunliffe
Philip
Jodie Louise -
contemplating suicide
Girl in a hole
Bex Wilks
has a mean brother
Crystal Moment
Tanya Hannah
on a lonely childhood
Please Mummy Don't
Eleanor Creed
about a doll
The Janitor and the Little Girl
Chapters One to Four 1.12.2006
Sidi Cherkawi Benzahra

The Purple Rose of Baffins
Paul Martin
The Mirror and the Ghostwriter
John Whalen
buys a mirror
A Father's Promise
David Francis
misses his Pa
The Long Weekend
Ali Shaw
- No one would suspect a thing
Diane and the Doughnut
John Demetriou

F-Train - a literary journey
Mathew C Allison

Mind Block: Guy Block gets some libido therapy
Mark Cunliffe

Block Out
Mark Cunliffe
It was a crisp January morning at Trenton University.
All was normal
Block Party
Mark Cunliffe
Guy Block knew it was going to be a bad night out.

Stumbling Block
Mark Cunliffe
Guy Block hated tutorials.
Loving and Leaving
Abi Davis

The night you left...

Appleby Fair
Frances Lewis

back to the family, he beams, and treads softly away

Devastation in the Nineties:
Take That Split
Sara Richardson
- My tale begins on the ominous day of Friday 13th February, 1996
The Solitary Hunter
Jessica Schnieder
"The sky is full of birds, and they are all dead..."
Antoinetta's Rosebush
Nickolay Todorov
Antoinetta resolved to stop herself from sneaking into the crematorium furnace and joining her dead husband Myrt

Dark-Eyed Sister
Paul Martin
She is gazing up at the night sky, her head cocked back at ninety degrees, watching the dark. It is eleven o’clock at night and she has gone out for a walk to clear her head

The Funeral Reunion
Quentin Bates
A scrum of hard-faced women cradling extra-long Superkings between taloned fingers crowded around the flowers while husbands and dads in sharp suits passed a pouch of baccy from hand to hand in the summer sunshine
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Uncle and the Kid
Mike Blake

When his nephew was younger, the uncle found it easy to do things with him. It wasn’t difficult to get the kid’s interest up in things, get him excited, and make him laugh. It seemed that the kid was game for just about anything with his favorite uncle. Whatever they did turned out to be fun

Congratulations - You Are a Winner!
Thomas Healy
Later than usual for work, Gus Chesney rushed out to his Subaru wagon and started to unlock the door when he noticed the left front tire...
Research and the Novel
Sam North - a paper on creative research

Never Look Back
Hawk
Footsteps falling on the icy ground. Shallow breaths echo round the air. She could feel her heart pounding in her chest. She had to run, had to hide, had to get away
Diamonds - The Rush of '72
by Sam North
Buy this novel direct
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'a terrific piece of storytelling'
Historical Novel Society Review

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Head Space: Green Fireplace
J.A. Billstrom
on edge in Vancouver
Clarity after a Rainfall

Lauren Almey

As he headed in her direction...
Melted
Lauren Almey at the empty fairground

Cold
Dave Burton

Night, Morning, Night
Lauren Almey
She had longed to believe in monsters...
Ebb Away
Lauren Almey on lovers torn apart
Worth a Hug

John Gorman

Understanding Bill
Alan Stokes

Stubblefield's Joke
Dan McClenaghan takes a ride

First Speech
Sam Barnes learns to talk

Zelda the Witch

Martin Green

Nightmare - Iraq Dreams

Gemma Williams
The Death of an Immigrant
Sidi Cherkawi Benzahra

Life: A Hall of Mirrors
David C Card in the playground
Just Another Tourist
Bruce Pohlman in Bali
Allegory
RRB on being a cricket
Away for the weekend
Alan Stokes with guitar solo
Rythm of the Waves
Jeffery Beyl - Malibu '72
An Interrupted Run
Marja Hagborg in the snow
Dem Bones
Jeani Rector does a little digging
That 'time' of year
Mike Blake on old postcards
Last Meeting
Martin Green closes the books
Japan (is Another Country)
Brian Wright
The Disaster Addict
Spencer Dew waits for dark times ahead
The Adventures of Foxman and Brodie
Brodie Parker out late on the streets

Travelling Mohan
Anushka Rao in Bangalore
Unobtrusive methods and inchoate designs
Richard Grayson on identity
The Rig Runner
Tom Sheehan on the truckers highway
A Cobbler's Tale
Christine Churcher
Out There
Alan Stokes
Sip the Night Away
Caitlin Metland on the dance floor
How will it end?
Wendell R. Mangibin
Harter Fell
Graham Attenborough on a mountain
Kate Webster: A good hanging
Graham Attenborough

I Love Kylie
Chris Miller
Getting Started
Martin Green
A Second Chance
Raymond K. Clement is all at sea
Delete
Raymond k Clement on Monhegan Island
The Man who got away
Martin Green
The Scavangers
Raymond Clement
The Oddballs
Mike Knowles
Family Pictures
Debralynn Fein- about survival
Letters from the Dead
Joseph Grant keeping the peace
The Little Things
Xara Higgs -the importance of a crystal duck
On a Plain far from here
Lauren Almey
Wedding Knot
Joseph Grant
Lost in Fiction
Mark Cunliffe
The Great Tennis Battle
Martin Green
Islander
Clare Sager
The Usher Woman
Clare Sager
In The Dark
Lauren Almey is hiding
The Kamping Fuhrer
John Edwards
The Old 88
Gerald Grant - a Sherlock Holmes adventure
Angry Words
James Ryder walks out
Johhny Gets his car
Jerry Billstrom
The Hungerton Dungeon - A Sherlock Holmes adventure
Gerald Grant
Benches
Mike Blake
Watching and waiting

No Wonder
Josh Flyr and one household animal
The Dreaded Christmas Office Party

Xara Higgs

Flapper
Xara Higgs got that razzamatazz

Next Year
Lauren Lifari

White Sands
Vincent Lowry
Father and Son farewell
The Human Spirit
- is capable of anything
Joshua Lineberry
Stone Cold in the staffroom
Alan Stokes
Brandon
Alan Stokes on happy families
Diverged
Timothy P Waldron - a story about identity
Vodka, Wine, Milk
Mary Wilson on couples
The Real Heroes of the Pacific
Judy Radano
On Self Destruct
Alan Stokes
Take it or Leave it
Alan Stokes

Form Follows Function
Dorothee Lang
Rag Castle
Kevin Schofield
*warning an adult content ghost story
A Vacant Lot
Sidi Cherkawi Benzahra - a Moroccan story
The Gourmet Chef
H G Dowdell
The Office Patsy
Martin Green
The Mother who chained up her son
Sidi Cherkawi Benzahra on lost sheep
Obey Thy Grandfather?
Sidi Cherkawi Benzahra
Faithful
Jean S Brown on hero worship
Cat's Paw
Maja Hagborg
A way to lose your Coat
Sidi Cherkawi Benzahra
Mustapha the Sheep
Sidi Benzahra
A Well Ordered Life
Martin Green
Sausalito Revisited
Martin Green
A travel story from the word go
Tom Sheehan
Driving on the Sausage Run
Tom Sheehan
In Order to Forget
Diana Hurlbut
26th Avenue
Diana Hurlbut finds a crack in the city
First Day at School
Chris Churcher
Devil You know and the Devil you don't
Ryan Moore
The Tennis Season
Martin Green in a doubles match
Plague
Tom Donoghue
Hot Baby Blue: Something More
one afternoon- Ryan J Moore
Squat Party
Graham Attenborough throws a party
Happy?
Graham Attenborough
The Long Miles
Ryan Moore is running
Squirrel of Death - A true story?
Evil Squirel v Man
Life With the Bradstones
Antonio Hernandez- robots have lives too...

The Future
Victor Manley in the dark
Who's buying the rock?
Alan Stokes
Work
Alan Stokes
I sleep in a squat
Punkerslut gets a job
Gladys and Bruno
Richard Corwin with circus follies
Crowd Pleaser
Richard Corwin
Sorry it's like this
Mark Cunliffe in the gangster café
Alone
Richard Corwin on the battlefield
The Playing Field
Gemma Roxy Williams is death
The Collector
Richard Corwin
wonders if he should call in sick

Nobody's Child
Joseph Grant with a moral tale of abuse
Traitor
Mark Cunliffe
Parmesan Elephants
Mark Culiffe - a love story in four parts
Sleep
Jo Green - a memory from Malaysia
A Deadly Monday
Richard Corwin
Humiliation has it's own reward

The Journey
Mark Cunliffe on growing up in Manchester

Sexual Block: Guy Block gets some therapy
Mark Cunliffe

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The One
Gemma Ayres

The moment I saw him, I knew. He was the one
I am Godfree
Sidi Cherkawi Benzahra

A Love Letter
Suzanna Brooksbank

Atomic Dream
David Tavernier disintegrates

Meeting Water

Tolu Ogunlesi under fire in Lagos
Bloodline
Nick Walker
The Ballad of the Lonely Cowboy
Jennifer York

The King of the Dustmites
Mary Wilson - are you in my notebook?

Whispering October
David Tavenier

You'll never see him coming
Rosebush
David Tavernier

The Pig Hole
William Starr Moake's adventure in the Everglades

Ruby Moon

The whore, the hitman and Hawaii
Bill Moake

The Adman & Olga
Martin Green NY '63

The Lament of the Freelancer

The horror of the blank page

Brodie Parker

Spire
Brodie Parker - Kill the Monster
A Very Darling Christmas
Sarah Richardson

My Mother Was A Sex-Crazed Pill Popper
Alan M Danzis

Flint - Bringing the Past to life
Alex Hillman
Lum
Luc Hue -The Life of a Vietnam taxi driver
Black Roots and A Red Heart
Bonnie Nish
Levitation
Richard Meyer
Torah,Torah, Torah
Richard Meyer
Purgatory
Douglas N Kimball
Missing Time
Roger Duncan can't stand the white lights
Rendered
Roger Duncan on the streets at night
Lost
Jeanette Harris
Murmurings of Return
Richard Meyer on USA 1967
The Ark
Mary Wilson down on the farm
What I want to be when I grow up
Tolu Ogunlesi on being a poet
Symbols and Democracy
Kane X Faucher
All the same
Will Carpenter is having an identity crisis
Whiskey Walking
M. Blake - about the man at your door
Curve
Erica J Thinesen - Going Bi-Polar
Cigarettes
Mary Wilson
"Need some help there, little lady?"
The Tennis Boom
Martin Green and the swingers
The Elevator
Sam Barnes
Shopping with temptation
The Girl in the Baseball Cap
John Ludlam
Betrayal and the doorman
Ice Cream
David Tavernier - a tale of three parts
Wild, Delicious, Dead
Phil Mershon investigates a squeaky clean girl
Part Two begins here
Hot Gossip
John Bradshaw down the pub
Teacher's Power Trip
Gemma Williams in the classroom

Paying The Bills
Martin Green
Never enough
Jack Ruby
Jim Parks
'That guy Jack Ruby you used to talk about - he just shot Oswald'.
The Great Beyond Chapters 1 & 2
Brodie Parker in the afterlife...
Great Beyond - Chapter Three
Brodie Parker - picking up styx
Great Beyond - Chapter Four
Brodie Parker in the cold black dark
Great Beyond - Chapter Five

The Sword above my head

Great Beyond - Chapter Six
Confusion and a vision
Great Beyond - Chapter Seven
Shrugg is set a task. Find him or else

The Great Beyond - Chapter Eight
Learning to live or die by the sword
The Great Beyond - Chapter Nine
Mark Twain has some advice
The Great Beyond Chapter Ten
The Revenge begins
The Great Beyond Chapter Eleven
Battle Commences
The Great Beyond Chapter Twelve
Flee to safety
The Great Beyond Chapter Thirteen
The Gray Area
The Great Beyond Chapter Fourteen
Back to Reality
Great Beyond - Chapter Fifteen
Alive again
Great Beyond - Chapter Sixteen
Alaskan Storm
Great Beyond - Chapter Seventeen
The Gathering Army

Great Beyond - Chapter Eighteen
Slaughter
Great Beyond - Chapter Nineteen
Penultimate Chapter
Brodie Parker's serialised novel about life after death is here - only in Hackwriters

Goddess
Gary Glauber on a romantic lost cause
Gretchen- Queen of Nightmares
Sidi Benzahra - she's dead sexy
The Snake House
Sidi Benzahra
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Hate Drives a Mercedes Benz
Sidi Cherkawi Benzahra
A Tale of a Singer and his Lover
Punkerslut
Soldier to Life's Battles

Punkerslut

Exile in Buenos Aires
William Moake
Running Away
Anne Benjamin
The Story of a Girl
Rita Sidhu (Fiction

A Sweetened Memory
Richard Meyer
Lush Life
Authur Blake needs a drink or two...
A Man Outside
Authur Blake on the streets
The Temple: Going Native
Mary Wilson
Ninety-Five Steps to Paradise
Eric D Knapp
Mutiny
Paul H Schnaars on a journal of space madness
Gramps
117 and fading fast
Brodie Parker
Driving Home
Bonnie Nish and a search for a birthplace
The Lost Books of the Bible
G David Schwartz on the process of creating the bible

Oakland in Black and White
David Tavernier
"Empty out yer pockets and gimme yer wallet kid," he had said.
Black Buffalo Woman
Jeffrey Beyl

This pain told him that he was still alive - the prophecy of his vision had not been fulfilled.
Zwolf the wonder dog
David Tavernier - about a dog who could save marriages...
The Gingerbreadman and Cheese
Phil Mershon
"
It's the Feds, Park, hundreds of 'em'
A Babershop Conversation
David Tavernier
if you want to hear a little personal truth, I've never once had a haircut I liked
A Gazelle is an Antelope
Daniel Thant is not feeling well...

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The Shotgun Incident
Daniel Thant - protecting the one you love

House of the Sun

William Starr Moake in Hawaii
Hotel Tajikistan

Larry Thompson & a piano player

Day One

Gabriel Ricard: the first day of Ninth Grade

Pod's Luc
Helen Weston
Short Story of the year -2003
The Curse of the Swiss Chocolate Tax
Terence Kumpf
Deception

Robin Slick
a story about lust and trust in a marriage

Song Bird Deflated
Heather Neale

The Ostrich & the Fog
Jeffrey Beyl
Circus Girls
Zaak Fresh

The Swing
Janice Slater playing with tigers
A Fallen History
Judy Randano on being a klutz

My Brilliant Game Plan
Justin Jacob ' rules of attraction'

Jennifer
Sam North

'...I need your help, now. '

Estrella
Skeeze Whitlow
The Sisters whispered that she was touched by tongues of the Holy Spirit.

Daddy's Little Girl Learn's To Drive
Mary Matsumoto
The Suicide's Dog
J. N. Krause
A typical lower class morning
D. G. Harris
About a Dog
Dominic H gets a ransom note
Me-Child
Warren Vanderpool on spectres

Sundays in Vancouver with dog
Sam North

The Prophet of The Night
Warren Vanderpool

Just Sit there and do Nothing
Kira Pirofski
The Great Pretender
Warren Vanderpool's horror story

Rainy Nights in New York
Smitha Parigi

The Whole Truth
Amy Chan

Spink
Marcel d'Agneau
A Stranger in Sweden
Sidi Benzahra and stolen kisses

Woman with Hoofed Feet

Sidi Benzahra
The Woman with hoofed feet - part two
Sidi Benzahra on lust and revenge
Happening
Simon Walker - What is Art?

Good Afternoon, Miss Garsha
Marcia Mascoli has singing lessons
A Regular Day (behind the bar)
Jeffrey Beyl

Human Puzzle
Heather Neale

Meesha was sick, Charlie knew it.

'Love - Nothing'
Malina Sarah Saval
She had it down cold, that thing that made people fawn
The Haunted Dog
Marcus Destorm - Notes from Seacliffe Police Headquarters
Next Christmas Will be Different
Kristi Siegel
The Power of Nothing
Robbin Yager
'To be still was impossible for her. They weren't living with a ghost...'

Between The Lines
Will Bombs drop on Vancouver?
Bonnie Nish
Jess
Linda Spendley
"Well Jess," he said, when he was finally able to speak, "that's it. It's all over."

Cold - A Squatter's Tale
Punkerslut
Improper Strangers
Joseph Grant
What Goes Around...
Amy chan
A Tale of a Love Apart
Punkerslut
The Bonfire
Jim Curtiss on love across boundaries

Driving Up the Malaysian Peninsula 
Zia Zaman
“Can we,” I ask, stalling, “stop somewhere and get a drink?”

My First Kiss
Sidi C Benzahara

First Time
Ami N. McDermond- about falling in love

Public Bath
Joe Sinclair in Japan

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Hard 17
David Whelan
We take a very dim view of any and all forms of cheating.

Long Haired Disasters -
Heather Neale on mother/ daughter/ boyfriend relationships
Reconciliation -watch your back on the road
Thom Gabladon

F-18 Breaking Down The Walls Of Heartache
Alex Hay
UNCLE SAMMY
Robin Slick meets 'The Candyman'.
KING
A dog and a very devoted owner.
Christine Wieser
BENDING SPOONS
D.M. Hendricks

a shared realization that the universe is much, much more than they previously imagined.
HOLIDAY (Romance)
D.M. Hendricks

Lost, until I met you. It was how I met you.

THE REDEMPTION CENTRE
Judy Radano

“Wouldn’t that cut crystal ash tray look nice in the living room?” she would ask

BOY WITH A FISHING POLE
C. J. Spataro
It’s the boy from the dock. Two summers ago
THE GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Harry Dade - She smoked the same way you did; incessantly,
ONE DAY
Robin Black
In another life, he might have been my love.
CANON in D
James Burnett
He tells me to quit trying to get loose; there’s no escape.

THE BONE WHITTLER
Nathan West
We're doin' this one step at a time, son; there's no fancy schmancy Tokyo assembly linefor this kind of work."
LANDSCAPES GREAT AND SMALL
Karel Sloane

I have no answers, I just ask questions.
THE RABBIT GOD
Jeremy Young
Paul had developed a keen understanding of the female mind.
VIETNAM WAR STORY
Robert Flynn

'I just stood there in a stupor unable to move or think
FLAT LINE ON A CLIFFTOP
Matt Fallize
I have only just remembered that my brother tried to kill himself
WEST OF WORLD
August 02 Story of the Month
Christopher Daniels

She had not told any other students, as far as he knew. Of course, she might have.
BANGKOK LOVE HAPPY
Summer Fiction alt choice

Kelvin Mason

Pinyo pulls Harry close, snuggles into his neck.

HIDDEN DISPARITY
Robert Cooper

September 2002 Story of the month
She wasn’t in the mood for anything much, even conversation was proving difficult tonight,

THE DROUGHT October '02 Choice Fiction
Veronica L. Harryman
...she could see the brittle, wheat-colored wasteland that used to be her garden.

The Blue Why
Esther Lydall
'You can't touch me, I'm underage.
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The WHITE SHACK
Sidi C. Benzahra
I decided to confront my fear and go to the white shack - see all that blood and gore.

FIFTY-TWO WHITE THIRTY-SiX BLACK
Amy Chan
... a flash of nubile, female thigh or a snugly encased bottom would be far from convivial to maintaining a chaste and celibate, male state of mind.

THAT DAY
James Carey takes a road trip to nowhere

UNFORGETTABLE
Richard Meyers in the ballroom
An Alternate Reality
Robin Slick
There are times I wonder if he’s even real. If he could possibly be the man I believe him to be.
Obsessions
Colin Todhunter in India
He had met a woman in the hotel, and was totally mad about her
Aging Angry Young Man
Colin James Haslett
'Mostly I’ve been the kind of person who walks around wanting to punch shiny, happy people right in the pie hole
BRUTALLY HONEST HARDWARE Kelvin Mason
THE EX Sam North ain't bitter at all...
POLICE TALK Joerg Liesgang
HAPPY Joerg Liesgang
HEAVEN (under the attic) Joerg Liesegang
SOCK HORROR Jess Wynne
BUS-BOY Kevlin Mason
FESTIVAL John Prohaska
BUTTERFLY RAGE Len Rely
LUCKY STAR Ali Shaw is tongue tied
SARA COMES TO CALL Sam North
NEW YORK STORIES Sam North
WHAT NOW? Oliver Moor
JACOB Stuart Macdonald
CLUBLIFE Kezia Richmond
EYE OF THE STORM Stuart Macdonald
DISCONNECTED Greg Farnum

LIFE SUPPORT Nathan Davies
BOSTON LIFE Chris Dellapenda
SMILE IN A SUPERMARKET Chris Dellapenda
MEN ARE KILLERS Glen Kenner
PERFECT SEX? David Rutherford
THREE ROSES Aaron Bone
RATS Aaron Bone
PARANOID ME? Sam North
MAN AND WIFE Nathan Davies
ROSIE James Skinner
BLACK DRESS Valerie Collins (award winner)
A NEW GAME Jon Nicholas
THE CHANCER Maggie Pishneshin

MAKING FRIENDS IN NEW YORK Sam North
WAR STORY -
Chris Morgan- still searching for Bin Laden
A CAPE COD MOMENT Zia Zaman
THE MAKING AND BREAKING
Amy Chan -a first chapter
52WHITE Amy Chan - a second chapter
VICKIE A first chapter
THE BONE WHITTLER Nathan West
ADVERSE CAMBER Mark Bass in India

TERRY AND JIMMY ROUND LUNCHTIME
Kevin Brunt

KEROUAC GETS THE THUMBS UP
Colin Field
LIFECHOICE
Walter Roberts
on cloning
DAYBREAK