The first book in your collection and the last book you bought. A cheap book and an expensive book. A book with a male protagonist and one with a female protagonist. A book you read fast and one that took you a long time to read.

Pieces of good writing news are, it would seem, like buses. As the saying goes, you wait forever, then three come along at once. I was thrilled, last week, to learn that I had been highly commended in the Inktears Short Story Competition 2014. On Tuesday my story Eavesdropping. I have a story in mind, and jus.

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