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Virtual annethologies

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If you liked this, you might like that ...

With so many stories to choose from, I'm tried to introduce a bit of order here by grouping together links to stories and blog posts on similar themes. However, these categories wouldn't work for everyone, so don't let that stop you mooching around my other story pages where you'll find short snippets from the stories and links to blog posts specific to the individual stories.


Follow this link for my 'real' anthology, Becoming Someone:

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Written on the Body

A collection of stories about surprising, troublesome and quirky anatomy, physiology and bodily experiences that prove hard to ignore.
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The stories
After Icarus
Blood
Dancing White

Ghost Girl
How's Your Sister?
In Praise of Female Parts
Jessica's Navel
My Beautiful Smile
Rebekah’s Foreskin
Sensitive skin
Tattoos and Rubber Gloves
The Neck
With a Small Bomb in Her Chest

The blog posts
The embodied you and me
Our bodies, ourselves
Writerly Kinesthesia
Smile please!






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Feel-good and funny

Upbeat and uplifting, these stories may make you think but, above all, they'll make you smile.
The stories
Albarella di Sarzana
Cold Calling
Getting It Together With Elvis
In Search of Mr Right
Lunch Break
The Front Legs of the Panto Horse
Shaggy Dog Story
The blog posts
Being good enough

Poignant

Stories that don't just touch your heart strings, but leave them tingling long after you've moved on to something else.
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The stories
A Daughter Your Age
A House for the Wazungu
A Smell of Paint
Elementary Mechanics
Ghost Girl
If You Could Do This One Last Thing for Me
In Praise of Female Parts
No Hard Feelings
No Milk or Sugar

Peace-and-Quiet Pancake
The Wilsons go Shopping
Washing Dishes at the Old People’s Luncheon Club
Stepping into Dan's Shoes

Tattoos and Rubber Gloves
The Beach Where He Found It
Winnie the Pooh's Danse ...

The blog posts
Don't try to dictate what I should feel
Good Grief for Writers? 


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Adolescence

That awkward in-between stage that can drag on from twelve to beyond twenty, when nothing is straightforward and life is so unfair.
The stories
A Daughter Your Age
A Smell of Paint
And the Winner is ...
Bathroom Suite
Betrayed

Ghost Girl
Heroes
In Praise of Female Parts
In Search of Mr Right
Jessica's Navel
Kinky Norm
Madonna and Child
My Beautiful Smile
No Hard Feelings
The Experiment Requires
The Ruler in my Head
What time it sunset?




The blog posts
4 ways to end a childhood

School: a suitable place for fiction?


You and we

Stories that address you directly; stories narrated in the second person or first person plural.
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The stories
A House for the Wazungu
In Praise of Female Parts
If You Could Do This One Last Thing for Me
Kinky Norm
What time it sunset?


The blog posts
First person plural: on being a wee bit of we
Over to you


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Family

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

The stories
A Dress for the Address
All Night, the Babby
A Man Is Swinging
A Smell of Paint
Elementary Mechanics
Freudian slip
How's Your Sister?
I Want Doesn't Get
No Milk or Sugar
Plastic
Rebekah’s Foreskin
Reflecting Queenie
Spring Cleaning
The Seven Dudley Sibs
The Ruler in my Head
The Wilsons go Shopping



The blog posts
Whose story is it anyway?

Parents

Smothering mothers, feckless fathers, kids who have to parent themselves ... and all trying to do their best.
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The stories
A Daughter Your Age
All the Time

Getting to grips with Liathach
Had to Be You
Madonna and Child
Mummy and Me
My Father's Love
Peace-and-Quiet Pancake
Rebekah’s Foreskin

Telling the Parents
The Beach Where He Found It
Winnie the Pooh's Danse ...
With a Small Bomb in Her Chest
The blog posts
A Mother's Day (alternative) Annethology
Must one leave home to be a writer?


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Couplings

Loves lost, troubled or triumphant loves and loves found in the least expected places.
The stories
Cold Calling
Fat Footprints
Flexible Rostering
Four Hail Marys
George and Pat For Ever
Getting It Together With Elvis
Getting to grips with Liathach
If You Could Do This One Last Thing for Me
In the Interim
In Search of Mr Right
No wildlife seen that day
Out of Her Element
Silver Bangles
Stealing the Show from Nature
The Arrangement
The Front Legs of the Panto Horse
The Japanese Garden
The Merry Widow
The Neck
The Witch's Funeral
Winnie the Pooh's Danse ...

The blog posts
Can our characters get TOO real?
Romantic fiction for the unromantic


Haves & have-nots

Stories that try to give a voice to the disadvantaged and rage at the disparity between rich and poor.
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The stories
A House for the Wazungu
All the way from Zokandu
Bathroom Suite
Fat Footprints

Ghost Girl
How Can They Do That
I Want Doesn't Get
Jessica's Navel
No Hard Feelings
Silver Bangles
Stepping into Dan's Shoes 
The Arrangement
Yoko Sits Silently on Stage





The blog posts
It's World Tourism Day
On memory and imagination
Poverty tourism
Who gives a shit for World Toilet Day?

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Slipstream Fiction

Somewhere between literary fiction, fantasy and sci-fi, the ordinary laws of physics and biology don't necessarily apply.
The stories
All the way from Zokandu
Fat Footprints
Heroes
The Neck
Plastic
Telling the Parents
Winnie the Pooh's Danse ...
With a Small Bomb in Her Chest


The blog posts
Any thoughts on slipstream fiction?
Disorientation
Ideas That Blow Your Mind

The amazing workings of the unconscious mind
Where's my mind gone?
Should I stretch this short story to a novel?


On nature /
in nature

Outside spaces, both cultivated and wild; nature at its most inspirational, but all may not be rosy in the garden.
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The stories
Albarella di Sarzana
All the way from Zokandu
A Man Is Swinging

No wildlife seen that day
Out of Her Element
Plastic
Stealing the Show from Nature
The Good News
The Japanese Garden

The blog posts
Allotment gardening
Assessing the harvest of words
Dirt under the fingernails
How the elephant god got his head
Is writing like gardening?
Lovely weather for writing
Preening Peacocks on YouTube
Waiting for the rain

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Unclassified

Not every story can be categorised … or maybe these are just waiting for the unifying theme to be discovered.
The stories
Across the Table
After Icarus

A Place of Safety
Doctoring
Habeas Corpus
Melanie's Last Tune
The Invention of Harmony
The blog posts
Follow this link for my 'real' anthology, Becoming Someone:

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