The Leeds Big Bookend: Review of Our Year
With a new year nearly upon us, like the Roman god Janus, we look back at 2013 and forward to the Big Bookend 2014. For the Big Bookend team, 2013 has flown by in...
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The Leeds Big Bookend’s Twelve Books of Christmas
By Steph Bryant As we open the final Advent calendar window, accomplish the final gift shopping mission, and carol sing our Santa hats off, Christmas Eve is upon us. But among the best parts...
Napkin Story: ‘Resurrection’ by Richard Smyth
What better day to close our Napkin story blog series than with one last spook on Friday the 13th! As we come to our final flash fiction piece, ‘Resurrection’, Richard Smyth leaves us with...
Napkin Story: ‘Something Out of Science Fiction’ by Jenny Beech
Our next napkin story winner is Jenny Beech, and her flash fiction piece ‘Something Out of Science Fiction’. The News has been strange these past days. Flickering images of peculiar shadows, the sounds of...
Napkin Story: ‘The Writer’s Curse’ by Christopher White
The next in our blog series of Napkin Halloween-themed stories is Christopher White’s ‘The Writer’s Curse’. . . The Writer’s Curse Damned Hallowe’en mused the writer. He was stuck in a rundown café staring...
Napkin Story: ‘Hallowmas’ by Terry Buchan
Up next in the Napkin blog series is Terry Buchan and his flash fiction work ‘Hallowmas’. . . Hallowmas This is your Hallowmas call. Are you some kind of cult? Putting you through now...
Napkin Story : Around the Door by Steve Toase
Steve Toase is our next Napkin winner, with his eerie Halloween story ‘Around the Door.’ Around The Door Taking another nail from between his teeth, Daniel hammered it into the bare wood of the...
Napkin Story: ‘Trick or Treat’ by Colin Stathers
Colin Stathers is our next Napkin winner, with his spooky Halloween-themed story ‘Trick Or Treat’. Trick Or Treat Help. The word never left his lips. Only the muffled sound of rummaging, somewhere close by,...
Napkin Story: ‘Neighbourhood Witch’ by Vicky Pointing
The Leeds Big Bookend’s own Vicky Pointing was a Napkin Story winner with her flash fiction piece, ‘Neighbourhood Witch’. Neighbourhood Witch I’m all for integration, but really, this has gone too far. The zombies...
Napkin Story: ‘All In The Mind Game’ by June Taylor
Following on from last Friday’s post, here is another winner from the Napkin Story Project by McBookishness. The competition asked Leeds writers for short but scary flash fiction. The stories would be published in napkin format...
