... Peter Cooper had judged the six entries, short stories on the theme of mistaken identity. The winner was Alice Barker with Mistaken Identity - a spine-chilling story. The second prize went to Nora Knox whose story of the same title was also an extremely ...

... SHORT STORY The New Partner MRS. WILLMER’S nimble fingers shook a little as she typed out a conveyance, and the resulting inaccuracy, so unlike her, meant that she had to start a fresh sheet. In a lawyer’s office erasure, was unforgivable. Her mind was ...

... A Short Story For Christmas The snowflakes were falling gently past the window-pane as Mary Rose sat brooding by the fire. Her brother. Frank, was seated by his mother’s side holding her frail, thin hand. “ A happy Christmas, mother,” he said softly and ...

... SHORT STORY OF PROUD DAD OF the many memorable events I enjoyed during periods of supporting Scarborough FC, the one I recall most clearly took place in conditions far removed from a Wembley final. The event was a floodlit practice match at the then Athletic ...

... SHORT STORY SERIAL PRIZE BBC Radio Humberside, in conjunction with Humberside County Council and Lincolnshire and Humberside Arts, are inviting entries for a short story competition with cash prizes for the winners, plus the opportunity to hear their ...

... ~Short Story Competition Winner SUCCESSION By David Andrews THAT snow was just like a wall. Strangely enough, only an hour earlier I'd been driving along perfectly happily on dry roads, looking forward to getting home for Christmas, and conditions were ...

... Deadline for short story contest near THERE are three weeks left now to write your story for the Knaresborough Post short story competition. The closing date is July 10. There have been a good number of entries already, but it is hoped there ...

... SHORT STORY There’s a Will- THE hearse had moved off. Save for the tick of the old clock, Annie was alone in the silence. At the last moment she had excused herself. The funeral was a menace to her health, she declared. “My heart.” she explained, much ...

... SHIPLEY TIM Master of the Short Story Gerald Kersh. who has already awakened two centuries later, done enough to make his place And Kersh attoitein his story among the celebrated short-story It makes me afraid with a conwriters of this ...

... Superb style in savage short story ARCILEOLOGY is like detective work, and when there are such lavish clues as those contained in the Bible, who could refrain from following them, to see if the mounds, the caves and the burial places of Palestine could ...

... Entries start for short story writing contest STORIES are beginning to come in for the Knaresborough Post Short Story competition which the paper is running as part of the Knaresborough Festival. If you are a budding ...

... Short story reveals a family feud CLAIRE BLOOM and Sam Wanamaker star in Philip Roth’s ‘“The Ghost Writer’’, specially adapted for TV, on BBC 2, tomorrow. Set in the 1950 s and filmed on location in New Zealand, the story concerns Nathan Zukerman, played ...