Hannah Retallick, Kerry Andrew og Sabrina Wolfe The Outlier and other stories

A stunning collection of stories from some of the leading short story and flash fiction writers worldwide. These are utterly diverting, absorbing and often breautiful tales full of emotional drama, surreal humour, broken memories and revenge from Kerry Andrew, Hannah Retallick, Sabrina Wolfe, Francis McCrickard and many more. Full author list below. Praise from best selling author Christopher Brookmyre and Marisa Haetzman, judges of the Edinburgh Short Story Award 2024 on the winning story The Coffin Path by Kerry AndrewWe loved not merely the language and imagery, but the rhythm of its flow... A haunting, tragic and yet optimistic piece of storytelling that conveyed a lifetime, but also a future.Learn more about the Edinburgh Writing Awards at www.scottishartstrust.org/writing The Outlier and other stories CONTENTS The Coffin Path by Kerry Andrew What You Do When You Find Your Mother Dead by Hannah Retallick Space enough for you by Sabrina Wolfe In Time by Francis McCrickard See The Light Play on the Water by Rob Scho¿eld The Good Storyteller by Terri Mullholland Wing Mirrors by Frances McKendrick The Outlier by Allison Brisbane Takeout Chinese Near Me by Franky Seymour For All Rats to Read by Nicola Caroli Penguins and Empanadas by Catherine Varley Snow Wine by Brian Sneeden My Wife is an Autumn Leaf by Jay McKenzie Fast Lane by Fiona Ritchie Walker A Day for the Ducks by David McGrath Back to life by Honor Somerset The Rowan by Fiona Donn All That Remains by Denarii Peters Hen Night with Mermaids by Lindsay Gillespie Language of the birds by MJ Burns Gypsy by Kerry Anderson Blue Juice by Abhainn Connolly 'Please Take Care of This Water Bear' by Joyce Meggett Husband Marketplace.com : Male Order Today by Claire Marsh Hilda & Albert by Chris d'Lacey When you hang the family out to dry by Kik Lodge I cancelled the comics by Jane Broughton Lo Svedese by Hollie Newton Breakwater by Gillian Webster Miami by Tommer Peterson All the Time in the World by Neil Gordon Shaw A Winter to End All Winters by Faith Cobaine The Alchemy of Mints by Sue Dewey Poor Creatures by Miriam Needham A Temporary Dilemma by Charles Maciejewski Russian Bookshop, London, 1991 by Kathryn Aldrige-Morris Worm Your Way Out of This by Roger Meachem Banned from the supermarket by Susan Osborne Cry of the Kittiwake by Mary D'Arcy Tea Leaf by Jo Spencely Mopping by Hannah Retallick Worms by Elizabeth Hibbs We live in a town ruled by iron ore by Cole Beauchamp Apex Dilemma by Candia Marsland The Tree Conservatory by Sherry Cassells A Whippet Arrives by Susan Elsley What do you think, Janey? by Frances Dalton Blackout by Rosalind Thomas Dark Horse by Kate Wildersley Kiss Me Sober by Joan Murphy Kissin' Season by Amy Macrae Mirror by Ian Gouge "Lovely day ¿r it" by Hannah Ward The Man in the Park by Eva Sneddon Notes from Spring by Lucy Donoghue Walk, Don't Walk by Michael Callaghan