: Thomas Stewart
: STORGY 2014 Short Story Prize Anthology
: STORGY Books
: 9781999890780
: 1
: CHF 1.00
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: Erzählende Literatur
: English
: 171
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The 2014 STORGY Short Story Competition Anthology celebrates the continued resurgence of the short story genre and showcases some of the most talented up-and-coming authors from across the world. This outstanding collection features all fourteen finalists and competitions winners, as judged by critically-acclaimed author David James Poissant. These wonderfully diverse short stories will move, amuse, unsettle, and entertain, combining to create the most eclectic collection available online.
Stories by competition winner Rowena Macdonald; runners-up Karina Evans and Juliet Hill; and finalists: H C Child, Curtis Dickerson, Aleksei Drakos, Lucy Durneen, Sarah Evans, Rab Ferguson, Dyane Forde, Thomas Stewart, Scott Palmer, Chris Arp, and Jacqueline Horrix. This edition also contains author forewords, interviews, and exclusive artwork by STORGY illustrator Harlot Von Charlotte.

WINNER OF THE 2014 STORGY SHORT STORY COMPETITION


LIVE MEAT AND FREEDOM By Rowena Macdonald


Swimming on, cushioned in the bubble of heat that had formed around her, she came up with some solutions:

1. She was the best swimmer in her class: she could easily swim to the mainland.

2. She could put some money in a plastic carrying thing around her neck, like surfers wore.

3. She could buy a train ticket with her birthday money and avoid murderers and weirdos.

4. She would plead with Dad not to make her go back, tell him how much she hated it at John’s, how much she hated school. If none of this worked, she would lie on the floor and refuse to move.

5. She would persuade Dad to teach her at home. He didn’t believe in school anyway. He once told her that school was a glorified crèche, an idea developed by adults because they couldn’t be bothered to deal with their children. It was the most thrilling thing she’d ever heard; like he’d broken a law that every other adult in the world obeyed.

She turn