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Our Story of the Week is a story about endings from the writer Yvonne Dykes. Yvonne writes both short stories and longer fiction. In 2014, she self-published her first novel Brondesbury Villas on Amazon Kindle and began attending creative writing courses at City Lit. In 2015, her first short story, A Death, was published in City Lit’

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D A Adamson is a native Yorkshire writer with three of his short stories, A Special Gift, The Miner who Would be a Gannet and Murder on the Duchy Estate, available on our website. D A Adamson started writing while still in school, and carried on in his later life, working as an advertising copywriter for press, radio and TV in the UK,

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Our story of the week is Prairie Child, a warm story from the writer Maggie Hellwig. Maggie graduated from Dickinson College with her BFA in English Literature in 2007, and with her MFA in Writing from School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015. She is now a writer and instructor of English Literature at Northwestern State Universi

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Jasmin Kirkbride is an imaginative story writer and the author of two short stories on our website - the fantasy-like The Cloud Loom and The Locust Theorem, a tale about chasing your dreams. Jasmin's short stories has been published in various magazines, including Open Pen and Haverthorn. Her flash fiction has been shortlisted for

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She pulled a bunch of ribbons from her jacket pocket, selected a red one, then squeezed it in the palm of her hand. ‘I wish,’ she said, and closed her eyes, ‘I wish that today will be the day that I find you.’ She took the ribbon to the large elm tree and tied it onto a low hanging branch. It flapped lazily in the breeze. Fr

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The Saturday When Everything Changed by Sophie van Llewyn 6:30 a.m. Alina wakes up, brushes her teeth, applies unobtrusive makeup for school (a dust of powder and lipstick in a soft brown tone). On her way to the kitchen, where she will make the coffee, she wakes Liviu up with a soft caress on his arm.   Nothing has chan

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Greg Forrester is an author of fantastic magical realism short stories. Born and raised in County Durham, Greg initially dreamed of becoming a teacher. After changing his mind, Greg received a BA degree in Creative Writing from the University of Sunderland, and a masters degree from Newcastle University. Greg's first writing attempt ha

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Yvonne Dykes is a writer of empathetic and insightful short stories - The View of the Garden in Summer, Something Understood and The Osprey at Dusk. Brought up in London with eight siblings, Yvonne has been teaching for seventeen years and has recently completed a masters degree in Education. She wrote a draft for her first novel 

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Born in Hertfordshire, Paul Sutton Reeves is one of the wittiest Fairlight Books' short story writers. Throughout his life Paul has lived in eleven English counties, teaching economics, working as a freelance journalist, and playing in a number of various 'obscure' music bands. He now lives between East Anglia and Brittany with his wife 

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Our Story of the Week is The Ghosts from Kathmandu, a marriage story from the writer Abi Hynes. Abi has been writing stories and poetry for as long as she can remember. Books and theatre were a wonderful inheritance from both of her parents. While at university she thoroughly enjoyed exploring theatre and still feels writing plays is h

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