The third in a series of annual anthologies, The Best British Short Stories 2013 reprints the cream of short fiction, by British writers, first published in 2012. These stories appeared in magazines from the Edinburgh Review to Granta, in anthologies from various publishers, and in authors‘ own short story collections. They appeared online at 3:AM Magazine, Fleeting and elsewhere.
This new anthology includes stories by: Charles Boyle, Regi Claire, Laura Del-Rivo, Lesley Glaister, MJ Hyland, Jackie Kay, Nina Killham, Charles Lambert, Adam Lively, Anneliese Mackintosh, Adam Marek, Alison Moore, Alex Preston, Ross Raisin, David Rose, Ellis Sharp, Robert Shearman, Nikesh Shukla, James Wall and Guy Ware.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
Alison Moore
The Smell of the Slaughterhouse
Ellis Sharp
The Writer
Adam Marek
The Stormchasers
Jackie Kay
Mrs Vadnie Marlene Sevlon
Ross Raisin
When You Grow into Yourself
Laura Del-Rivo
J Krissman in the Park
Alex Preston
The Swimmer in the Desert
Adam Lively
Voyage
Charles Lambert
Curtains
Anneliese Mackintosh
Doctors
Robert Shearman
Bedtime Stories For Yasmin
Nikesh Shukla
Canute
James Wall
Dancing to Nat King Cole
Nina Killham
My Wife the Hyena
Charles Boyle
Budapest
Lesley Glaister
Just Watch Me
Guy Ware
Hostage
MJ Hyland
Even Pretty Eyes Commit Crimes
Regi Claire
The Tasting
David Rose
Eleanor – The End Notes
Contributors‘ Biographies
Acknowledgements
Über den Autor
David Rose was born in 1949 and spent his working life in the Post Office. His debut story was published in the Literary Review (1989), since when he has been widely published in magazines in the UK and Canada. He was joint owner and fiction editor of Main Street Journal. He is the author of two novels, Vault (2011) and Meridian (2015) and one collection, Posthumous Stories (2013). Recent stories have appeared in Gorse.
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