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An automatic book-borrowing machine starts acting strangely 

A fishy story with a twist  

For Blob's challenge 

My inspiration for the week 422 challenge 

This is a humorous story with a domestic setting. It's intended more for a website than a womag 

A mystery story with a twist for TSBFF's 'Spine Chiller' category 

A mystery story with a twist for TSBFF's 'Spine Chiller' category 

The pared-down version of a story I hope to send to a women's magazine. 

This is a tale with a twist that I've written with TWN in mind 

Intended to be a womag story 

Here's the last of my crime competiton stories. 

Another story for the magazine crime competition. Sorry if you've seen it before, but I've cut it down to meet the word limit of 1,700 so I hope it's improved. It's about an ordinary married couple who meet a pair of very odd strangers while holidaying in Austria 

A seaside ghost story 

Help comes from an unexpected source 

Help comes from an unexpected source 

A hobby gets out of hand 

The latest advance in supermarket trolley technology 

For Gerry's Challenge - a comedy in a 99p shop (but that's not the number) 

A story about time inspired by Greenwich, for Neeze's challenge about waking and sleeping 

For V'Yonne's feeling out of place challenge 

For Week 345 challenge 

An entry for the 'opening' challenge 

An entry for the Truth and Deception competition 340 

Entry for Week 340 challenge about Truth and Deception 

A story about a Chinese taxi-driver 

Two elderly women recall the heyday of the cinema 

I once went on a writing class where some members hardly wrote anything. I began to speculate about motives for joining classes... 

An accident-prone couple in a ski resort sets Mary's imagination racing 

A couple are accidentally separated in Barcelona 

A lght-heated ghost story with a sea-side setting 

A rewrite of a domestic comedy story I posted recently. 

A crime story with a suburban setting 

A short travel review 

This query letter is in a format I found in a book about getting published. It said to include: likely readership appeal, summary with chapters, stage of development and why the author is qualified to write it. 

Here's one I prepared earlier - a review I wrote as an exercise on a Journalism course. The 'target publication' was one of the broadsheet weekend supplements. 

An exercise I did for my Journalism class -short Restaurant Reviews modelled on the ‘Guardian Weekend’ monthly ‘Readers Restaurants’ column.  

An exercise I did for the Journalism class -short Restaurant Reviews modelled on the ‘Guardian Weekend’ monthly ‘Readers Restaurants’ column  

Whilst working in northeast China I was posted for a few days to a town on the North Korean border. This is the second of two parts. 

A section from my book about living in China 

I wrote this a while ago, when I was teaching in secondary school.