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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

Red’s Cafe

The Weight We Carry

Richard, Do You Remember?

Interviews

Spotlight On Writers – Kellasandra Ferrara

Spotlight On Writers – Pramod Rastogi

Interview Q&A With Jim Wilson-Storey

Red’s Cafe

The French Warbride

I Was Just a Girl

Our Anniversary Poem

A Decision by Lake Qarun

A Hole In My Heart

The Keys

Starless Heart

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Richard, Do You Remember?

Wardle Stuebner and the School Ma’am

The Race

The Weight We Carry

Red’s Cafe

I Offer You a Pomegranate

Mind Those Gaps

The French Warbride

The Third Body

Poise

Life’s Music

To Prose, Say Goodbye!