{"id":737,"date":"2012-04-10T20:47:59","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T19:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jameskwalker.co.uk\/blog\/?page_id=737"},"modified":"2012-11-21T16:09:56","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T16:09:56","slug":"published-short-stories","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jameskwalker.co.uk\/blog\/published-short-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Published Short Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

Presented here is a selection of short stories published in anthologies or magazines. Click the extract links to read more. Some of the stories can also be downloaded in Adobe PDF format. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader, you can download this free software from here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u2018The SILLITOE TRAIL\u2019<\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a>Synopsis:<\/strong> The eBook comes in the form of a Factory Handbook. The publication is packed with facts about Alan Sillitoe\u2019s Nottingham and features essays by five commissioned writers as they visit five locations from the novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning<\/em>. Publisher:<\/strong> The Space<\/a>\/Arts Council.\u00a0Editor:<\/strong> James Walker and Paul Fillingham. Download for FREE<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u2018THE LONG SILVER LEGS AFTER MIDNIGHT\u2019<\/h3>\n

\"HearingSynopsis:<\/strong> A troubled man drives around in the early hours of the morning. \u00a0He pulls over to scribble down his thoughts but when the Police arrive they\u2019re convinced he’s up to something else…
\nInfo:<\/strong> Appears in Hearing Voices, Vol. 3.
\nPublisher:<\/strong> Crystal Clear Creators<\/a>, 2011
\nRead this story: PDF Download<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u2018Route Offline: a festival of short stories\u2019<\/h3>\n

\"RouteSynopsis:<\/strong> A collection of stories from editors Crista Ermiya, Katherine Locke, Daithidh MacEochaidh, Susan Tranter and myself.
\nInfo:<\/strong> Hardback release of Byteback ebooks, includes ‘The Three and a Half Day Parent’.
\nPublisher:<\/strong> Route<\/a>, 2008
\nAvailable from Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u2018The Back Door Step\u2019<\/h3>\n

\"StapleSynopsis:<\/strong> An insomniac loiters on a doorstep.
\nInfo: Featured in Issue 68 of Staple Magazine
\nPublisher:<\/strong> Staple Magazine<\/a>, 2007
\nClick to read this story<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u2018Oh Nottingham, is full of fun…\u2019<\/h3>\n

\"LeftSynopsis:<\/strong> Poetry on the terraces.
\nInfo:<\/strong> Featured in the December 2007 Issue of LeftLion Magazine
\nPublisher:<\/strong> LeftLion Magazine<\/a>, 2007
\nClick to read this story<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u2018Waiting for God\u2019<\/h3>\n

\"CreatureSynopsis:<\/strong> The British Love to Queue…
\nInfo:<\/strong> Featured in Issue 5 of this online magazine
\nPublisher:<\/strong> Creature Mag<\/a>, 2006
\nClick to read this story<\/a> online<\/p>\n

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\u2018DJing for Dogs\u2019<\/h3>\n

\"StimulusSynopsis:<\/strong> Breaking up is hard to do so try performing telepathy with a Labrador…
\nInfo:<\/strong> Featured in Edition 18 of this arts magazine
\nPublisher:<\/strong> Stimulus Respond<\/a>, 2007
\nClick to read this story<\/a> online<\/p>\n

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\u2018How the loneliness of the Dartford Toll Operator made me miss a digital miracle\u2019<\/h3>\n

\"TransmissionSynopsis:<\/strong> A drive\u00a0turns out to reveal an unexpected surprise\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Info:<\/strong> Featured in Issue 7 of Transmission Magazine
\nPublisher:<\/strong> Transmission Magazine<\/a>, 2007<\/p>\n

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\u2018Trying to Find Van Breukelen\u2019<\/h3>\n

\"IdeasSynopsis:<\/strong> A story about life and death and footballers….
\nInfo: Collected in ‘Ideas above our station’\u00a0anthology
\nISBN: 1 901927 28 8
\nPublisher:<\/strong> Route<\/a>, 2006
\nAvailable from Amazon<\/a>
\n Reviews<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u2018Wheelie Bins and World Wars\u2019<\/h3>\n

\"TheSynopsis:<\/strong> A story about bins and things….
\nInfo:<\/strong> Featured in Edition 3 of this online arts review
\nPublisher:<\/strong> Roundtable Review, 2006
\nThe Roundtable Review site is no longer online. You can view an archived version here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u2018The Cocco-Bella Man\u2019<\/h3>\n

\"WonderwallSynopsis:<\/strong> Not a holiday romance
\nInfo:<\/strong> Collected in ‘Wonderwall’ anthology
\nISBN: 1 901927 24 5
\nPublisher:<\/strong> Route<\/a>, \u00a02005
\nAvailable from Amazon<\/a>
\nReview<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u2018The Three and a Half Day Parent\u2019<\/h3>\n

\"TheSynopsis:<\/strong> 6 short stories about break-ups, parenting, and neighbours who drive big white vans.
\nInfo:<\/strong> Part of the ‘byteback’ ebook series from Route
\nPages:<\/strong> 48, enough for one session in the bath.
\nPublisher:<\/strong> Route, 2005\u00a0Free Ebook<\/a> available from Route
\nReview<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u2018Why I have to wear a pair of Wranglers everyday for the rest of my life, whilst I live on this street\u2019<\/h3>\n

\"NakedSynopsis:<\/strong> A 101 uses for a dead dog that is really alive
\nInfo: Collected in \u2018Naked City\u2019 anthology
\nISBN: 1 901927 23 7 \u00a0\u00a0Pages: 272
\nPublisher:<\/strong> Route<\/a>, 2004
\nAvailable on Amazon<\/a>
\nReviews<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u2018The Housewives Tale\u2019<\/h3>\n

\"YorkSynopsis:<\/strong> A modern day version of Chaucer\u2019s \u2018The Clerks Tale\u2019 which twists the notion of unconditional female submissiveness.
\nInfo:<\/strong> Collected in \u00a0\u2018York Tales\u2019 anthology
\nISBN: 0-9543247-7-3
\nPublisher:<\/strong> Endpapers Ltd, \u00a02004
\nAvailable from Amazon<\/a>
\nReview<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u2018Three Across, Two Down\u2019<\/h3>\n

\"NoughtSynopsis:<\/strong> The solution for a happy funeral is perhaps the solution to a happy life
\nInfo:<\/strong> Collected in \u2018Nought Point Three\u2019 anthology
\nISBN: 0-9541337-3-0
\nPublisher:<\/strong> Launderette Books, 2004
\nClick to read this story<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u2018The Birthday Boy\u2019<\/h3>\n

\"NoughtSynopsis:<\/strong> The story of a spoilt brat or perhaps an over bearing father or maybe something completely different.
\nInfo:<\/strong> Collected in \u2018Nought Point Three\u2019 anthology
\nISBN: 0-9541337-3-0
\nPublisher:<\/strong> Launderette Books, 2004
\nClick to read this story<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u2018Hamadryas Baboons and Lisa Lashes\u2019<\/h3>\n

\"TheSynopsis:<\/strong> About relationships, dented cars and dented egos.
\nInfo:<\/strong> Won the Jo Cowell International Short Story Award 2003.
\nPublished<\/strong> in The New Writer<\/a> no. 64, February 2004
\nClick to read this story<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u2018The Man with the Voice\u2019<\/h3>\n

\"ManSynopsis:<\/strong> About an elderly man who is a lover of tea, talking, and entertaining single mothers in the daytime.
\nInfo:<\/strong> Collected in \u2018Man of Trent\u2019 anthology
\nISBN: 0-9541337-2-2
\nPublisher:<\/strong> Launderette Books, 2003
\nClick to read extracts<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u2018The Holy Trinity: How the National Lottery, Dale Winton and the Millennium Wheel can bring about World Peace\u2019<\/h3>\n

\"LaunderetteSynopsis<\/strong>: Everything which the title suggests and nothing more.
\nInfo:<\/strong> Collected in \u2018Straight Up\u2019 anthology
\nISBN: 0-9541337-1-4
\nPublisher:<\/strong> Launderette Books, 2002
\nClick to read extracts<\/a><\/p>\n

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