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Naked Thighs and Cotton Frocks and Other Stories
Short Story Anthology
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Format: Demi 156 Pages
ISBN: 978-1-905599-40-0
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The following day, the six thirty-eight travellers were greeted with a second image, similar to the first but fully erect this time, and in colour. It could have been a cutting from the same source as the first … although, with this new, brighter male form buzzing in front of their eyes, few of the passengers could now recall that other, duller picture. Certainly it wasn’t the same man: Miss Taplow noticed that at once. Years of working as a legal secretary had given her an instinct for detail. – Extract from ‘Naked Thighs and Cotton Frocks’ by Anne Shewring
A series of mysterious and increasingly explicit photographs befuddles the reticent travellers on the 06:38, two very different men are forced to confront their fears and desires during a claustrophobic coach trip and an aging seventies TV star pores over his memories of the Golden Age to find out where the faults lie. All of the above and more besides loiter between the covers of Naked Thighs and Cotton Frocks and Other Stories, which contains the eleven winning entries from the Leaf Books 2007 Short Story competition.
The competition was judged by the Leaf Team. Our thanks to all who entered.
Winner
‘Naked Thighs and Cotton Frocks’ by Anne Shewring
Runner up
‘Translations’ by Mark Wagstaff
Commended
‘Jared Williams Again’ by Jenny Jackson
‘Looking at Water’ by Alan Markland
‘Turning’ by Pippa Goldschmidt
‘The Spirit of the Age’ by Nemone Thornes
‘Mortgage’ by Priya Sharma
‘The Volcano’ by Catherine Chanter
‘Like a Good Boy’ by Aiden O’Reilly
‘Postcards from a Previous Life’ by Andrew Blackman
‘You’re Dead’ by Tom Williams
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