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Jim Wilson-Storey

I was born and raised in Yorkshire, England. At fifteen I left school without the skills or maturity to appreciate the wider world. At nineteen I packed a bag and wandered through Europe and North Africa, learning from the road. At twenty‑five I earned the qualifications for university, eventually becoming a high school teacher and later an education manager. Now I live with my amazing wife on an island north of Seattle. After retiring and with encouragement from Spillwords and the Clever Park Writers Group, I traded reports for storytelling. And that's where the fiction began...

Cast Off by Niall Crowley

The two computer screens tighten their grip. Tom pivots between them, tracking one while he works on the other. Careful discipline from early morning to close of business. Number crunching, he would have termed it before. Now it’s data management and verification, his task to model and tabulate clients’ financial situations and options. Bookkeeping, he would admit to, in more candid moments. He’s tethered firmly to the task, though, and has been since he started here, nearly two years now. Bound in the rigour the work requires, as if life itself depends on it. Top floor, dormer window ...

Features

The Inner Editor Speaks, But Not Quite

Red’s Cafe

The Weight We Carry

Interviews

Spotlight On Writers – Kellasandra Ferrara

Spotlight On Writers – Pramod Rastogi

Interview Q&A With Jim Wilson-Storey

The French Warbride

The Third Body

Mind Those Gaps

Faded Dreams

Purge

The (Not So) Perfect Christmas

Mrs. MacGinny’s House

Nothing Lasts Forever But Hate

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Richard, Do You Remember?

The French Warbride

The Race

The Weight We Carry

Red’s Cafe

I Offer You a Pomegranate

The Inner Editor Speaks, But Not Quite

Abandoned Things

Verse vs Prose

Moment In Flight

Ageing Gracefully or Not

Mind Those Gaps