An Earthless Melting Pot

by Jd Smith

Another volume of prize-winning short stories from the Words with Jam 2013 BIGGER Short Story Competition. Judged by David Haviland (fiction agent for the Andrew Lownie Literary Agency), Polly Courtney (author of Feral Youth) and Susan Jane Gilman (author of The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street), this second collection displays the talents of another up-and-coming group of new writers. A heady mixture of stories, from romance to spine-chilling tension and from the virtual world to the extreme worlds of the self-deluded, these stories will take you to places you've never been before. Longer stories are mixed with pieces of flash fiction. How long is a story? As long as it takes to tell it. This second volume of competition-winning stories proves the maxim once again.Stories and contributors include: Advertisement by James Collett; Guests by Alison Wassell; A Lonesome Snow Leopard by David McGrath; The Clock by James Harding; Apprentice Pillar by Ralph Jackman; Recycled by Marie Gethins; Drop-Dead Gorgeous by Helen Laycock; The Road to Repair by Gail Jack; Street Kids Don't Have Birthdays by Gill Sainsbury; Sackcloth and Ashes by Justin N Davies; Beneath the Arches by Lindsay Bamfield; Biological by KM Elkes; Is There Anything You'd Like to Say to the Person Who Donated this Food Parcel? by James Collett; The Baron's Elixir by Mahsuda Snaith; Let Me Pay by Bren Gosling; Symbiosis by Mark Wilkinson; 99 Red Balloons by Barbara Leahy; Cockles by A.M. Hall; Mustard Heart by L.A. Craig; Tell Me a Secret by Alison Wassell; Your Account is in Arrears; Take Action Now by Justin N Davies; A Pointed Question by Brindley Hallam Dennis; Trumpet Dreams by Hilary McGrath; Little Legs by Julia Anderson