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Other Ways of Being

 

Other Ways of Being is an anthology of stories that ask us many questions about:

• otherness: Is a stranger a threat or is he just trying to help? It may be as clever as being a fortune-teller but is it helpful?
• other times: Is the wild woman really a little girl that she used to know? Will they be safe now or should they worry about the bright soldiers marching? Which horror does the deep sleeper hide?
• other histories: Who was that strange child? How did they manage to feed so many people?
• other worlds: Can a couple remain together even when their natures threaten to keep them apart? Is a seemingly incompetent wizard cleverer than he seems? What happens when an alien makes a mistake and almost gives himself away? Do animals help each other in their struggle against the damage that humans are doing? Who exactly is the lady in blue? Is Bradley’s the best story ever?
• our near futures: Can a man survive in a dystopian future if he has no more human contact? What can ATMs do when society goes moneyless? What happens when the money runs out? Just how smart will the smartphone get? Or driverless cars for that matter? Where will we find sanctuary when the extremists start winning? What happens to the clones when the blueprint gets sick?
• other sexualities and genders: Will we get used to Toni?

Does this collection supply the answers to those questions? That is for the reader to decide.

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Natascha is forever falling off the piano and getting sucked up by the vacuum cleaner.

Natascha is the smallest of a set of Russian dolls and envies her bigger sisters as they have more detail on them.

The family acquire a new vacuum cleaner and this time it takes Natascha to another world where she has an amazing adventure.  But is it all a dream and related to the story the mummy is reading to young Alfred?

Up to you to decide in Natascha’s intriguing story told by Gill and Ashleigh James.      

 

It's rotten having a birthday just before Christmas. 

Sometimes Toby gets just one present for both his birthday and Christmas. Sometimes people just give him money because they've run out of present ideas.  Then when he comes to spend that money there's hardly anything left in the shops. It’s the same this year. He can't find any Lego bricks he wants. 

An old man who reminds him of his Grandpa Jack is sitting cold and hungry on the street. Toby thinks of another use for his birthday money.  What he does afterwards reminds his Grandpa Jack of a well-known Christmas song.  

On the Feast of Stephen by Gill and Ashleigh James is a feel-good story for early readers.

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On theFeast of Stephen

 

 

It's rotten having a birthday just before Christmas. 

Sometimes Toby gets just one present for both his birthday and Christmas. Sometimes people just give him money because they've run out of present ideas.  Then when he comes to spend that money there's hardly anything left in the shops. It’s the same this year. He can't find any Lego bricks he wants. 

An old man who reminds him of his Grandpa Jack is sitting cold and hungry on the street. Toby thinks of another use for his birthday money.  What he does afterwards reminds his Grandpa Jack of a well-known Christmas song.  

On the Feast of Stephen by Gill and Ashleigh James is a feel-good story for early readers. 

 

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asnby Gill James 

 

Can anyone be as challenged as Petri?

A rare and painful skin disease stops her leading a normal young adult life, she is asked to take on the Pease Child role at which her adoptive father, Kaleem, excels and what seemed like a perfect romance becomes complicated when her boyfriend's twin brother appears on the scene.

Can a rare metal alloy pay for a cure? Or should she rather give the gift of imagination? Can she ever be as good a diplomat as Kaleem? Is there any hope for her and Toby?  

Gill James again presents some present day concerns in a glimpse of a possible distant future in The Glastonbury Specification the fifth novel  in the Peace Child series. 

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Ston eAngels by Paula R. C. Readman 

 

Has James Ravencroft left it too late?

He has one last painting to create for a solo exhibition, but the police are closing in. Basil Hallward, his wannabe international art agent, also questions the dark beauty behind the series of paintings known as Stone Angels.  Ravencroft hides among the shadows to create his funereal masterpieces.

Will his methods horrify you or will you admire his tenacity in Paula R C Readman's chilling Stone Angels?   

Warning. Thi story is  afirst person don account from a serial killer and  contains scenes some readers may find disturbing. ..

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Has James Ravencroft left it too late?

He has one last painting to create for a solo exhibition, but the police are closing in. Basil Hallward, his wannabe international art agent, also questions the dark beauty behind the series of paintings known as Stone Angels.  Ravencroft hides among the shadows to create his funereal masterpieces.

Will his methods horrify you or will you admire his tenacity in Paula R C Readman's chilling Stone Angels?   

 

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What's your Muse

When I used to do school visits one question I always dreaded was 'Where do you get your ideas from?'

An honest response would be 'all over the place'.

Things that really happened.

Ye, on day I'll have to writet the story about the time an angel tune up and  helped us to find a lost car part

Unpicking history

What was it really like when that happened?. What was it like living through the Plague or the Black death or di[their epidemic of Spanish flu. A little different from Covid-they didn't have TV or the Internet then- let alone ZOOM.

Peopmrptsd from all sorts of places.

MY two flash collection40x140 and 280x70 contain stories inspired by the first picture I saw on Twitter that day.

Reedsy

Offers prompts: https://reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/

The Big BOOK of Prompts
Some writing friends and I put this book together:

https://www.thebridgetowncafebooksshop.co.uk/2023/02/the-big-book-of-prompts_27.html   

Retelling

I'm quite fond o retelling ell-known stories from a different point of view. These can be Bible stories, well-known fairy-tales or even something from Shakespeare.