From Sunderland to South Africa

I've gone international this week with a short story published in You Magazine.

It's South Africa's best-selling English language magazine. My story Say Cheese appeared in the weekly magazine dated Jan 26 2017.  Here's the contents page from the magazine where I'm listed simply as Fiction.


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