Waiting and watching and writing

I have two short stories out today.  One is in The People's Friend Fiction Special No. 135. It is called Ladies Only and is about a ladies only waiting room on a 1916 railway station. It was inspired by a writing day spent at Beamish Museum with their writer in residence.

Also out today is A Good Match in The People's Friend weekly magazine - where my weekly soap opera Riverside appears also.  A Good Match was inspired by a true story I blogged about here.



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Patsy Collins said…
Congratulations on those publications.
8:25 AM
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