The website above has been set up in general to provide information / support and to promote the short story. It's an off shoot of last year's 'Save Our Short Story' campaign.
On the site you can read short stories, find info about different collections and there's also a competition, the top prize being £15,000. Not bad. The winner gets read out along with a number of runners up on Radio 4.
So enter.
It would be nice to see someone from ABCTales doing the business.
I wanted to comment on these because I experienced something that appears very similar.
I think whatever you feel about loss such as this, it takes tremendous courage to not only put your thoughts down on paper, but to show them to others. This courage should be commended.
How disappointed was I to discover the wall doesn't actually wail. Going to the dead sea on Friday...and apparently there are bacterial life forms living in it. Have I been conned?
The cattle better be lowing when I get to Bethlehem or I'm going to Ibiza next year.
The american amazon site (www.amazon.com) now provides a series of pointless statistics about books. Just look at a books page, if they have analysed it there will be a list of SIPS (statistically improbable phrases) at the top and a "Concordance" and "Text Stats" links under the "Inside This Book" section.
.... the results have just been brought to my attention. Is that Fish I see? If it's not, it's a lady of the similar name who writes of surprisingly similar themes....
Who's young? Does anyone say reccy anymore? As in, he took a reccy. (That is reccy as in reconnaissance, in case it really is old hat. That is old hat, as in old fashioned...)
