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Static tells of one woman's solitary existence on the Welsh coast and her relationship with her absent niece. It is published by Tindal Street Press, 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, from Amazon.co.uk, or through bookshops and libraries by quoting ISBN 0 9535895 7 9.

Cover Design by Sally Moore Designs for Tindal Street Press

Cover: Sally Moore Designs

Cover Design by Jane Rye for London Magazine

Cover: Jane Rye

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 Alan Ross.

The book is available in hardback from Amazon.co.uk or through bookshops and libraries by quoting ISBN 0 904388 86 7.

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 and through bookshops by quoting the ISBN 0 9540526 4 1.

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. ISSN 1363 1667.

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) ISSN 1356 5435.

Little Acorns was second in an illustrated story competition in 1996, and published in Story Cellar Issue 5, ISSN 1353 9752. Making Arrangements, examining the organisational tendencies of three generations of women, was published the year before in Issue 3 ISSN 1353 9752.