


The Fiction Desk
Series · 6 books · 2011-2013
Books in series

#1
Various Authors
2011
These twelve stories will take you from the shores of Lake Garda in Italy to a
hospital room in Utah, from a retirement home overlooking the Solent
to an unusual school in the wilds of Scotland. Meet people like Daniel,
a government employee looking for an escape; and William, a most
remarkable dog by anyone’s standards.
Various Authors is the first volume in a new series of anthologies
dedicated to discovering and publishing the best new short fiction.

#2
All These Little Worlds
2011
Nine new stories from British and international authors.
A new dress code causes havoc in an American school, a newspaper error leads a retired comedian to look back over his career, and a family buys an unusual addition to their fish tank. This volume also features ‘Pretty Vacant’, a new long story from Charles Lambert.
All These Little Worlds is the latest volume in a series of anthologies dedicated to discovering and publishing the best new short fiction.

#3
The Maginot Line
2012
Among the a son visits his father in an East Sussex village, two boys play with guns in an American town, a new neighbour disrupts life for a New Zealand community, and a group of investment bankers find an unusual solace in a remote London garden.The Maginot Line is the third volume in a series of anthologies dedicated to discovering and publishing the best new short fiction from Britain and abroad.

#4
Crying Just Like Anybody
2012
Our fourth anthology, Crying Just Like Anybody takes its title from a story by Richard Smyth, and features ten new stories.
Previous contributors Matt Plass, Matthew Licht, and Colin Corrigan are all making their return in this volume, and newcomers to the series include Die Booth, Mike Scott Thomson, William Thirsk-Gaskill, Luiza Sauma and S.R. Mastrantone.
This volume also features our first story in translation, with 'I'm the One' from Slovenian author Miha Mazzini.

#5
Because of What Happened
2013
Among the stories in this volume: a croupier takes on his casino; routine breaks down in an unusual zoo; a commune struggles with a rat infestation; the residents of a lonely tower block receive a visitor from the future; and the truth is revealed about the tragic death of a local hero (or so the papers say).
Includes the winning stories from the Fiction Desk flash fiction competition.
Matt Plass - Invisible Them
Cindy George - The Coaster Boys
S R Mastrantone - Something Unfinished
Paul Lenehan - For Joy
Tim Lay - The Patter of Tiny Feet
Robert Summersgill - The Menagerie of Sound
Andrew Jury - Last Night
Ian Shine - Love Stops at Ten Metres
Warwick Sprawson - The System
Tania Hershman - A Call to Arms Gavin Cameron - A Big Leap
Ian Sales - The Last Men on the Moon
James Collett - The Clever Skeleton
Tony Lovell - The Stairwell
Damon King - Simmo!

#6
New Ghost Stories
2013
Everything is haunted: From an abandoned hospital in Maryland to the stage of the Sydney Opera House, from a lonely apartment in Slovenia to the Yorkshire Wolds, the stories in this new collection remind us that there are ghosts everywhere.
This volume also includes the two prizewinning stories from the first annual Fiction Desk ghost story competition.
Contents:
Julia Patt - At Glenn Dale
Eloise Shepherd - Journeyman
Oli Hadfield - Tom
Matthew Licht - Washout
Jason Atkinson - Half Mom
Amanda Mason - No Good Deed
Richard Smyth - Chalklands
Ann Wahlman - Old Ghosts
Linda Brucesmith - The 25th Caprice
Jonathan Pinnock - A Whole Bloody Century
Miha Mazzini - In The Walls
Joanne Rush - Guests
Authors

S.R. Mastrantone
Author · 1 books
S R Mastrantone is a writer and musician from The West Midlands, now living in Oxford. His debut novel THE KILLER YOU KNOW is due 2018 on Sphere/Little,Brown under the name S R Masters. Chances are if you like his short stories, you might like his novel. You can find it here! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

Warwick Sprawson
Author · 1 books
Warwick is a writer from Melbourne, Australia.
Tony Lovell
Author · 2 books
See also: Tony Lovell, author of Bedbug's Writing: A Collection of Short Stories + Poetry, Volume One .