Virtual annethologies
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:
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:
Written on the BodyA collection of stories about surprising, troublesome and quirky anatomy, physiology and bodily experiences that prove hard to ignore.
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Feel-good and funnyUpbeat and uplifting, these stories may make you think but, above all, they'll make you smile.
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PoignantStories 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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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 ... |
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AdolescenceThat awkward in-between stage that can drag on from twelve to beyond twenty, when nothing is straightforward and life is so unfair.
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You and weStories that address you directly; stories narrated in the second person or first person plural.
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FamilyHappy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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ParentsSmothering mothers, feckless fathers, kids who have to parent themselves ... and all trying to do their best.
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CouplingsLoves lost, troubled or triumphant loves and loves found in the least expected places.
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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 ... |
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Haves & have-notsStories that try to give a voice to the disadvantaged and rage at the disparity between rich and poor.
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Slipstream FictionSomewhere between literary fiction, fantasy and sci-fi, the ordinary laws of physics and biology don't necessarily apply.
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On nature /
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UnclassifiedNot every story can be categorised … or maybe these are just waiting for the unifying theme to be discovered.
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