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The Light That Remains
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Format: Demy
204 Pages
ISBN: 9781905599349
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‘Keep walking,’ he said, and we kept walking. The excited sound of the spectators at the edges of the crash itself, the whee-oosh clamour of the approaching ambulance, the burning scent that the cars offered up: none of it attracted him. Other people saw the wreckage, a body lying in the street (still alive, I think) and rushed over, like flies wanting corpses, for whatever reasons they have – but not him. Not at all. ‘Keep walking,’ he said. – Extract from ‘The Light That Remains’.
A bookish boy’s learning to experience his city as a blind man would experience it; a fabled and helplessly destructive dragon that lives at the local takeaway and a biker’s encounter with a Harley-fancying mermaid. The Light That Remains and Other Stories contains the winning entries from the Leaf Books Open Short Story Competition that ran during the winter of 2006. The fourteen superlative stories residing within represent the pick of crop.
The competition was judged by the Leaf Team. Our thanks to all who entered.
Contents:
The Light That Remains // Paul Currion
Natural Selection // Robert Wilton
Starshine // Mark Wagstaff
Breakfast Things // Mark Wagstaff
Third Person // Michael Stewart
Darling, You Know and I Know // Lynne Voyce
Treasure // Holly Barratt
Hide and Seek // Jenny Jack
Something to Write Home About // Ian Madden
Mid-Life Baby // Annette Keen
Burning // Sue Anderson
Standing Up on the Pedals // Joanna Quinn
Perhaps Birches // Joanna Lilley
Break, Break, Break // Sally Douglas
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