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Message in the Bottle
and Other Stories
ISBN 978-1-905599-52-3
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‘I’m not a catholic,’ she announces, as I run my finger down the yellow page, hoping to land on Convents between Control Panels and Conveyancing. ‘I haven’t really got any faith.’
That makes two of us, but I gave up searching.
Extract from winning story ‘Between Control Panels and Conveyancing’.
Message in the Bottle and Other Stories contains the winning entries from Leaf Books’ 2009 short story competition: 39 tea-break-sized narrative morsels about everything from missing nuns to Jeffrey Archer by way of Queen Victoria’s bedchamber.
The competition was judged by the Leaf Team. Our thanks to all who entered.
Winner:
‘Between Control Panels and Conveyancing’ by Emma Hardy
Runner-up:
‘I Can Do Miracles’ by David Grubb
Commended:
‘The Last Time We See Harold’ by David Grubb
‘Thoughts of a Contract Killer on his Fiftieth Birthday’ by Andrew Giles
‘Any Other Day’ by Mark Wagstaff
‘Legend’ by Sue Anderson
‘Pink Dalmation’ by Daisy Behagg
‘In the Garden’ by Daisy Behagg
‘Reunion’ by Sarah Stutt
‘Light Above Water’ by Rachel Arrowsmith
‘There’s a Library Too’ by Shirley Golden
‘Crossing the Bridge’ by Tyler Keevil
‘Honk for Jimmy Buffett’ by Jean Aloe
‘Eastside of the Dee’ by Math Bird
‘How to Make the Cut’ by Louise Broadbent
‘Bird’s Eye View’ by Joanna Campbell
‘Night Vision’ by Wendy Craig
‘The Grey Sunflower’ by Hugh Farmar
‘Idée Fixe’ by Adam Gilmour
‘Trigger’s Broom’ by RV Jones
‘Trust’ by Giselle Leeb
‘Archer’ by Paul Lenehan
‘The Queen and Me’ by Julie Mayhew
‘Borders’ by Emma Musty
‘Shattered Glass’ by Clarissa Pattern
‘The Tapestry of Needles’ by Brenda Ray
‘Holding On’ by Colin Rennie
‘Mosaic’ by Andy Rigley
‘Faithful to the Original’ by Stephen Santer
‘High Heels in the Snow’ by Anne Shewring
‘Lift’ by Stewart Tiley
‘Corresponding Colours’ by David Towsey
‘Indian Dance’ by Martin Tyrrell
‘On the Seventh Day’ by Steve Wade
‘Message in the Bottle’ by Pete Walsh
‘Burning Man’ by Joel Willans
‘Starlight’ by Dougal Wilson-Croome
‘My Hands’ by Brian Winn
‘ A Simulation of a Simulacrumdomling’ by Joel Wright