Work : The Scotsman/Orange Short Story Collection 2006

by MacLaverty, Bernard

• ISBN13: 9781904598831
• ISBN10: 1904598838
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-08-03
• Publisher: Gardners Books

Summary

Well-known names and talented new writers are all to be found in this volume of the very best entries to Britains biggest and most prestigious short story competition The Scotsman and Orange Short Story Award. Entrants were given a single word work to trigger the imagination. Twenty of the best stories from the competition sit alongside specially commissioned stories from Janice Galloway, Duncan McLean and Brian McCabe.

Table of Contents

With lamp and cormorant	p. 1
Housework	p. 14
Another world	p. 24
Shite	p. 32
In and out the windows	p. 37
The big the beautiful Nanda Gray	p. 46
The man who couldn't write	p. 54
Broken glass	p. 62
The paper boy	p. 68
Sea angel	p. 73
Escalator	p. 94
I should have listened harder	p. 102
Budding	p. 108
Odd jobbing	p. 115
A vision thing	p. 124
The menu	p. 132
When you wake up	p. 142
A concrete dream	p. 148
Brittle	p. 158
Strange fare	p. 168
Not in the home	p. 178
Coastal business	p. 186
What question?	p. 197
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