Simon Marshland's Blog – June 2011 Archive (2)

Extract from my new book A Case of Black Rock and other stories

The Big Fellah

Edward Cubbington parked the range rover off the road by the old bridge and walked over to peer down at the river below. The heavy rains that had fallen a fortnight before, raising the level and muddying the waters with silt were history and now the river was reborn, running gin clear beneath him. Returning to the car he opened the back door and pulled out…

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Added by Simon Marshland on June 27, 2011 at 4:30am — No Comments

The Short Story

The short story went into decline when so many of the magazines that supported them died. That is not to say there are not short story magazines around from the prestigious New Yorker and possibly Harper’s to the leading newcomer Amazon for online stories. But in the main the rest of them now cater for science fiction and horror which narrows the horizons for most aspiring short story writers. That said there are a number of online publishers of short stories but few of them pay and for…

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Added by Simon Marshland on June 24, 2011 at 7:53pm — No Comments