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Long List: Short Stories 2021

A Bowl of Soup by Natalie Gregory

Annie-2006 by Mary Blackshaw

Blowing Smoke by Claire Garrett

Bottom of the River by Karen J. Birdsell

Carnage by Liam Keller

Checkmate by Laura Plummer

Cherry talks to Tree by Christopher Hardy Naylor

Cold Patch by Sherry Morris

Dearly Beloved by Rose Morris

Earl by John Carstensen

Erudite by Ilana Goldman

Excalibur by Georgia Cook

Exposure by Penny Frances

Faking It by Mandy Wheeler

First Person Singular by Andy Stewart

Forest Bathing by Dianne Bown-Wilson

Handprints by Anita Goodfellow

Hope by D J Howes

Hush little baby by Abi Hennig

In The Hollow by Jude Laverty

Kneelers by Sherri Turner

Life Support by Rosemary Guilding

Little Hell by Emily Howes

Little Pig by Richard Chalk

Madonna and Child by Helen Lawrence

Mavis Grind by Juliet Hill

Mike the Bike by Ruth Edwardson)

Patting the Lizard by Richard Joseph Doron

Piggy Bank by David Macfarlane

Ruby Calismo by Brennen Edwards

Screaming Dogfight with the Light by Richard Hooton

Sticks and Stones by Mark Stocker

Stream of Tranquillity by Peter Kelly

Sunk Cost by Edison Hayes

The Angel by Thomas Sanders

The Balance of Things by Hannah Persaud

The Clarity of Sun on Water by Cheryl Burman

The essence of touch by Hannah Sutherland

The House Where We Once Loved by Debbi Voisey

The Hunt by Kate Lawlor

The Inter-Abled Couple and the Head Patter by Carrie Jade Williams

The Last Wave by Richard Attree

The Word I Hunted by Carrie Jade Williams

This Tender Morning by Chloe Majstorovic

Threes by Grace Tynemouth

To End All Wars by Richard Chalk

Truths and Lies by Gillian Brown

Turtle Farming by Mark Rhodes

Wash Yer ‘ands by Sheila Marsh

Wings by Pat Pickavance

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