Long List: Short Stories 2024

A letter from a girl to her father at the front in WW1 by Sasha Stevens

A Piedi Nudi by Sam Szanto

A Woman’s Place by Christian Oliver

An Accidental Uncovering by Susan Martin

April, April, April, April and June by Denarii Peters

Ayla the Apothecary by Chris Cottom

Being Martina Navratilova by Elizabeth Meyer

Bubbling Point by Hanna Henderson

C_a_  Cof _ _ _ by Stephen Lorriman

Coachman, Pass By by Barry Neenan

Creating the Perfect Community Fish Tank by Marie Day

Drowndead by Mauk Donnabhain

Five Across by Sarah Barnett

Getting Ahead by Ken Tracey

Grade A, Grey Day by Joan El Faghloumi

Hands by Joy Clews

His Bones by Madelyn Postman

I Knew She Wasn’t Dead by Laurie Keim

Knowing the Enemy by Peter Burns

Like Old Times by Averil Robertson

Lost by Sarah MacAllister

Lullaby by Maria Kenny

Matryoshka by Marina Merryweather

Missed Connection by Alex Achimore

More Darnin’ than Cloth by Heather Haigh

Not a word to Mum and Dad… by Emma Mather

Our Broken Houses by Tiffany Farr

Parsons Gulley by Mike Woodhouse

Patches by Sarah Barnett

Professional Gravity by Rieve Bule

Small Talk by Alexis Wolfe

So We Might as Well Dance by Anita Goodfellow

Somewhere Sunny by Andrew Jones

The Diminishing Saint by Jeremy Hinchliff

The Gift by Gayle Beveridge

The Moment by Stephen Lorriman

The Resident of Renfield Rectory by Lesley Bungay

The Skeleton Key by Gayle Beveridge

The Unwanted Gift by Joy Clews

There is more than one way to be an executioner by Fi Dignan

Things My Dad Told Me by Madelyn Postman

Transit by Paul Bassett Davies

Wait until the sea is calm by Bernadette Stott

Wicked Things by J J Andrews