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A homophobic Scottish labourer in London dies, and is condemned to confront his prejudices in the afterlife.A story about how tragedy can be casually courted when we ignore mental and physical cues, and turn our backs on the past.Part of the Storycuts series, this story...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-11-17
ePub
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In 'Assailants', Del's wife hasn't left the house in six months. He likes to escape the tedium of home life with his unhinged wife and baby daughter by courting blackouts with alcohol and drugs. However a trip to the late-night convenience store reveals a latent marital...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-11-17
ePub
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In 'Bactine', a toothless layabout takes a break from nursing his crippled uncle and spends the evening abusing solvents with an acquaintance. The fumes only serve to exacerbate his dismay, though, and a trip to an all-night coffee shop causes some unpleasant...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-11-17
ePub
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One young man's homecoming shocks a whole town.This is a homecoming that none of the respectable folk of Clanton are pleased about: that of a young man dying of AIDS. But their attempts to ostracise him merely show up some very ugly shortcomings of their own . . .Part...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2011-11-17
ePub
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A story of high-stakes and revenge following the construction of a casino.A sly entrepreneur and an unlikely Chieftain conspire to set up a casino on tribal territory. Money starts to pour in, business seems assured, as do the attentions of the local lonely-hearted...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
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2011-11-17
ePub
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In 'Hair's Fate', when Daniel's father chops off his hair with a kitchen knife for meddling with his younger sister's doll, he decides to leave home. He hitches a ride with a trucker by the name of Cowboy Roy who plies him with liquor and pills, before suggesting a...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
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2011-11-17
ePub
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In the tropics of Miami, retired Scottish schoolteacher Albert Black mourns his wife of forty-one years. His grief and inability to connect with his son's Americanised family combine to undermine the Christian ethos that has governed his life. Dejected, he summons a...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
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2011-11-17
ePub
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Agatha Feakes looks back over her life and experiences, blissfully unaware that is her last day living . . .Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection Notwithstanding.
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Vintage Digital
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2011-11-17
ePub
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Tan Feng was my one and only friend in Sichuan. He was the same age as me: about eight or nine.Tan Feng's family lived next door to us, and their other kids were all girls, so you can imagine how they spoiled their only boy. They really adored him, but they didn't know...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
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2011-11-17
ePub
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In 'Auto-da-fé', a man's car defines him. Until the Rep of the Year, in his smart blue BMW, goes head-to- head in a showdown with V-man in his smug black Volvo saloon. But who is the real loser in this game?In 'Free Spirit', a wanderer, a party animal, goes wherever...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
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2011-11-17
ePub
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Strange events occur in a village in England, where the villagers themselves are endowed with an almost elfish beauty. Discoveries are made by a man who moves into a local cottage, for a writing retreat, also hoping to escape the woes of a recent divorce. He is...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2011-11-17
ePub
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In 'Eau de Toilette', in her boudoir Madame, a famous eighteenth-century French beauty of dubious hygiene habits, awaits, en déshabillée, the hot water for her six-monthly bath. Will it help to return Monseigneur de Rochefort, her favourite admirer, back to her side?In...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
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2011-11-17
ePub
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In 'Class of '81', when the graduates of wizardry school meet for their twenty-year reunion at Bella Pasta, the talk is all about love charms, cantrips, who has put on weight and who has had a body job. But one member of the group has sold out to a husband, home and...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
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2011-11-17
ePub
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You don't expect some guy making small talk on a train to turn into a real friend, but that was just the kind of friend Papa Qi was. And afterwards, Saturday became Papa Qi's visiting day. Every Saturday.Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2011-11-17
ePub
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Mickey Baker, an ex-pat English bar owner living in Spain, returns to England to see his daughter and mother but must face the wrath of his ex-wife, a woman who pulls no punches. Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-11-17
ePub
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In 'Any Girl Can Be A Candykiss Girl!', the fashion house Candykiss listens to its consumer, the little girls, not their parents. Their pleasure is creating clothing for them to express themselves, never mind how contemptuous the adult generation - sexually and...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
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2011-11-17
ePub
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Miss Golighty is no young Holly, and the supermarket café where she regularly has breakfast is no Tiffany's. When she befriends Cheryl, the tarty young waitress and teaches her to love old films, she finds a way to help her young friend find the courage to seek a better...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
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2011-11-17
ePub
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Badger is enduring his dull retirement but a chance letter from a wildlife sanctuary offers him the chance to lay some painful memories to rest.Part of the Storycuts series, this story was previously published in the collection The Darkness of Wallis Simpson.
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Vintage Digital
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2011-11-17
ePub
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Repeatedly exhorted by a strange figure to remember unspecified facts about her life, Wallis struggles with a world of random, snapshot memories. Try as she might to remember her third husband, the dull little man with no name, it is deeper remembrances that engulf her...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-11-17
ePub
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On a deserted beach battered by rain, a group of boys plot a wicked deed. 'We'll shoot the crucifix,' Deano declares, but it is Mick who will carry out the act of vengeance and bear the consequences, for it was Mick's brother Charlie who suffered a horrible accident ,...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-11-17
ePub
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