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An accident-prone couple in a ski resort sets Mary's imagination racing 

My inspiration for the week 422 challenge 

A rewrite of a domestic comedy story I posted recently. 

Intended to be a womag story 

The pared-down version of a story I hope to send to a women's magazine. 

Another story for the magazine crime competition. Sorry if you've seen it before, but I've cut it down to meet the word limit of 1,700 so I hope it's improved. It's about an ordinary married couple who meet a pair of very odd strangers while holidaying in Austria 

I wrote this a while ago, when I was teaching in secondary school. 

A seaside ghost story 

A mystery story with a twist for TSBFF's 'Spine Chiller' category 

A mystery story with a twist for TSBFF's 'Spine Chiller' category 

For Blob's challenge 

A fishy story with a twist  

This is a humorous story with a domestic setting. It's intended more for a website than a womag 

An exercise I did for the Journalism class -short Restaurant Reviews modelled on the ‘Guardian Weekend’ monthly ‘Readers Restaurants’ column  

An exercise I did for my Journalism class -short Restaurant Reviews modelled on the ‘Guardian Weekend’ monthly ‘Readers Restaurants’ column.  

For V'Yonne's feeling out of place challenge 

I once went on a writing class where some members hardly wrote anything. I began to speculate about motives for joining classes... 

Entry for Week 340 challenge about Truth and Deception 

For Gerry's Challenge - a comedy in a 99p shop (but that's not the number) 

This is a tale with a twist that I've written with TWN in mind 

Two elderly women recall the heyday of the cinema 

Help comes from an unexpected source 

Help comes from an unexpected source 

An automatic book-borrowing machine starts acting strangely 

A story about time inspired by Greenwich, for Neeze's challenge about waking and sleeping 

A short travel review 

A couple are accidentally separated in Barcelona 

This query letter is in a format I found in a book about getting published. It said to include: likely readership appeal, summary with chapters, stage of development and why the author is qualified to write it. 

For Week 345 challenge 

A hobby gets out of hand 

A section from my book about living in China 

Whilst working in northeast China I was posted for a few days to a town on the North Korean border. This is the second of two parts. 

A crime story with a suburban setting 

Here's one I prepared earlier - a review I wrote as an exercise on a Journalism course. The 'target publication' was one of the broadsheet weekend supplements. 

A story about a Chinese taxi-driver 

A lght-heated ghost story with a sea-side setting 

Here's the last of my crime competiton stories. 

The latest advance in supermarket trolley technology 

An entry for the Truth and Deception competition 340 

An entry for the 'opening' challenge