Short Stories
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Now, where was I?
Peter Kenny
I just finished another freelance job last night. And feel like a young otter released back into the wild. Is it just me, or do you do this too? As soon as I create a clear and focused plan about what I am going to do in my life, something else happens. My noble literary…
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Doctor Spotlight
Peter Kenny
I don’t know exactly where I first heard the term ‘Doctor Spotlight’ to describe the way that being in the spotlight can momentarily conceal, for example, the terrible hangover or malaise you might be experiencing. In the early nineties I was knocked off my bicycle one morning cycling down Chiswick High Road, and sustained quite…
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Proof positive
Peter Kenny
I want to heartily recommend Tess Jolly. Not only is she an amazing poet but she is also a fabulous proof reader. I asked Tess to proof a few of my short fictions which I am tentatively starting to assemble into a collection. She found a fair amount to fix: including a regrettable promiscuity with…
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Powerful work from Clare Best and Matthew G. Rees
Peter Kenny
Here are a two things I have read lately, that I would highly recommend. Clare Best The Missing List I’ve met Clare several times, but bought this book without realising that its subject matter was in fact a memoir about child abuse, published in 2018. I discovered it to be a beautiful patchwork of impressions, of…
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Supernatural Tales 41, Autumn 2019
Peter Kenny
As a horror and weird fiction newbie, I’m delighted to have my first story The Inheritor in Supernatural Tales, edited tirelessly by David Longhorn. My tale is set in Guernsey, and draws on my childhood experiences of living in my Grandparent’s haunted 16th century granite cottage. The story concerns the return of an exile, a…
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