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Cover: Katie Wall

Pauline Masurel's story The Honeymoon Couple tells the tale of a single woman's holiday in Sicily, set against the backdrop of Mount Etna. It was a runner up in the Chapter One Promotions International Short Story Competition 2010 and published in the anthology The Graft in August 2012.

10:05-11:05 is a short-short story set in Bath, which was included in the anthology Kissing Frankenstein and Other Stories. This book of fifty-three tiny stories by writers from the West Country was published in May 2012 by Flash-Fiction South West to celebrate the first National Flash-Fiction Day

Cover: Flash-Fiction South West

Equinox Publishing

3 Fantastic Places to Stay appear in Classifieds, an anthology of prose poems, published by Equinox Publishing in February 2012. The book is available direct from the publisher or from Amazon.com

Song Without Words tells the story of a woman who has begun losing things, including her memory. It features in the anthology Loss from Inkermen Press, published in September 2009, and is available direct from the publisher or from Amazon.co.uk

Cover: Rose Sanderson

Cover Design by Sarah Emily Edmond. Sarah's collages are crafted from a fusion of materials and found objects. She blends envelope insides and old fabric with plastic and paint to make tactile designs and images. This is her first book cover. For further information or to see her portfolio please message sarie8@gmail.com

Cover: Sarah Emily Edmond

Discovering a Comet was published by Leaf Books in November 2008, in the collection Discovering a Comet and More Micro-Fiction. The story was runner-up in their 2008 competition. The book is available in paperback direct from Leaf Books or from Amazon.co.uk.

Also from the same publisher, the collection Ada and More Nano-fiction was published in July 2009 and includes the tiny story Lost Plot

Cappuccino, All That Glistens is not Jello and Reality TV appear in the anthology Watermark. All three stories take an unusual slant on aspects of everyday life.

The book contains new writing by thirty-five graduates from the MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University College. It was launched at the Bath Literature Festival in February 2005 and is available from Amazon.co.uk.

Cover: Pauline Sturges

Quitting is a short story that dwells upon the perils of an addiction to knitting and how a self-help organisation to reform the afflicted turns out to be more trouble than the vice that the founder was seeking to cure. It was published in the January/February 2004 edition of The New Writer.

Static tells of one woman's solitary existence on the Welsh coast and her relationship with her absent niece. It was published by Tindal Street Press in 2002, together with twenty other short stories by women writers, in the anthology Her Majesty, edited by Jackie Gay and Emma Hargrave.

The book is available in paperback direct from the publisher or from Amazon.co.uk.

Cover Design by Sally Moore Designs for Tindal Street Press

Cover: Sally Moore

Cow Tipping is the story of six Irish sisters and their different readings — the last silent — of an incident from childhood involving a dead cow on the cliffs. It is one of thirty London Magazine stories included in Signals 3, edited by Jane Rye with a foreword by the late Alan Ross.

Presumed Missing concerns the predicament and freedom of being cast adrift at sea. It was first published in 1997 in Writing Women (Vol 13 No 1).

Little Acorns was second in an illustrated story competition in 1996, and published in Story Cellar Issue 5. Making Arrangements, examining the organisational tendencies of three generations of women, was published the year before in Issue 3.