For those of you who haven't seen it on the news already, you might want to log on to our new creative writing competition theGreenStory.co.uk The site is set to become the home of a new and evolving on-line story, with members of the public competing to add a new chapter each month. There are adult, children and teenage categories and the competition will last for ten months / chapters. Each month budding new writers can submit their entries, which are then voted on by the public, and at the end of every month the winning entry becomes the next chapter, and once the story is complete it'll be published - on recycled paper, of course!
So if you fancy your chances of appearing in print, getting involved in the 2008 National Year of Reading, or doing your bit for the environment (we've called it the Green Story for a reason), then click on the link above and submit your entry. Meanwhile we've put up a selection of short fiction to get your creative juices flowing, or if you prefer reading to writing, you can simply log on to the site to view the latest entries and cast your vote!
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| Jigs and Reels By: Joanne Harris    | All Books just £3.75 including FREE Delivery on all standard paperbacks! JIGS and REELS is Joanne Harris' first collection of short stories. As she says in her foreword, a good short story can startle, ignite, and illuminate...giving you vivid, anarchic glimpses into different worlds, different people. Here, she proves she is as good as her word by creating an eclectic selection of tales for our times that will delight, surprise, entertain and horrify in equal measure. | Girls' Night Out/Boys' Night in By: Chris Manby  | All Books just £3.75 including FREE Delivery on all standard paperbacks! With two front covers, this title contains 30 stories that should appeal to male and female alike. "Girls' Night Out" introduces female authors, including Josie Lloyd and Kathy Lette. "Boys' Night In" features authors such as Mike Gayle, and Emlyn Rees. |
| Playing Sardines By: Michele Roberts  | All Books just £3.75 including FREE Delivery on all standard paperbacks! A feast of short stories from a writer who relishes the sensual language of food and eating. They include the tales of a cook whose obsessive love turns hungry and dangerous; a fan who tries to get into a celebrity novelist's sheets; and a faddy eater thrown off-course by a miracle. | Twisted By: Jeffery Deaver  | All Books just £3.75 including FREE Delivery on all standard paperbacks! 'I can make good bad and bad badder, and most fun of all, really bad seem good.' - Jeffery Deaver. And, that is exactly what he does in this superb collection. Written by the author of "The Vanished Man", this collection contains the following stories: "Beautiful", "Triangle", "Without Jonathan", and "The Christmas Present". |
| Heavenly Date and Other Flirtations By: Alexander McCall Smith   | All Books just £3.75 including FREE Delivery on all standard paperbacks! This collection of stories covers perverse meetings, casual dates, and romantic encounters. The stories include the quirky complications inherent in entanglements which human beings engineer for themselves -entanglements that can be shocking, compulsive, and even completely disastrous. | Smile and Other Stories By: Deborah Moggach   | All Books just £3.75 including FREE Delivery on all standard paperbacks! Moggach's stories take as their subject modern marriage and the modern family. In a world of devout newsagents peddling porn magazines and bleak estates there is much room for deception and discovery. A fine collection of short stories, involving ante-natal classes, Volvo cars, estate agents' placards and threadbare marriages. |