Secondary Character and Other Stories

The twenty-eight stories collected here offer a wealth of both connection and contrast in plot, theme and style. By its nature the short story is capable of leaping into the reader's imagination to vivid and startling effect, as demonstrated here; from the supernatural in 'A Ghost May Come' to the psychologically charged in 'Marco's Eyes' to the poignant 'Theft' each story in this diverse anthology plays with both the everyday and those profound and life changing emotions of loss, jealousy and regret.

Among the compelling characters to be found in these stories is a young woman in the boot of a car, a man embarrassed by an inexplicable wound, a WWI infantryman about to meet his fate and a girl fascinated by bells... all proving that it's very hard to make rules about what constitutes a short story.

CONTRIBUTORS

Kay Beechey

Susmita Bhattacharya

Justine Bold

Carole Burns

Luned DeSimon

Karl Drinkwater

Frances Hay

Nic Herriot

Carly Holmes

Nigel Jarrett

John Lavin

Malcolm Lewis

Barrie Llewelyn

Jo Mazelis

Shelagh Middlehurst

Elizabeth Morgan

Lynda Nash

Kate North

Bethany W Pope

Diana Powell

Whyt Pugh

Colum Sanson-Regan

Gareth Scourfield

Danny Shyla

Thomas Stewart

Christina Thatcher

Rhys Thomas

Susie Wild