'' Keep walking, he said, and we kept walking. The excited sound of the spectators at the edges of the crash itself, the whee-oosh clamour of the approaching ambulance, the burning scent that the cars offered up: none of it attracted him. Other people saw the wreckage, a body lying in the street (still alive, I think) and rushed over, like flies wanting corpses, for whatever reasons they have but not him. Not at all. Keep walking, he said.'' ; Extract from The Light That Remains . A bookish boy s learning to experience his city as a blind man would experience it; a fabled and helplessly destructive dragon that lives at the local takeaway and a biker s encounter with a Harley-fancying mermaid. The Light That Remains and Other Stories contains the winning entries from the Leaf Books Open Short Story Competition that ran during the winter of 2006. The fourteen superlative stories residing within represent the pick of crop.
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Authors and stories: The Light That Remains // Paul Currion, Natural Selection // Robert Wilton, Starshine // Mark Wagstaff, Breakfast Things // Mark Wagstaff, Third Person // Michael Stewart, Darling, You Know and I Know // Lynne Voyce, Treasure // Holly Barratt, Hide and Seek // Jenny Jack, Something to Write Home About // Ian Madden, Mid-Life Baby // Annette Keen, Burning // Sue Anderson, Standing Up on the Pedals // Joanna Quinn, Perhaps Birches // Joanna Lilley, Break, Break, Break // Sally Douglas.
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