Things Lost and other short stories - Kindle Fiction

Things Lost and other short stories 
by David Pickering 


"Highly enjoyable", "thought-provoking and moving", "amusing and engaging", "tender and evocative", "enchanting", "touching and hilarious", "extremely well written", "elegiac", "awesome", "a pleasure to read" (readers' comments).

This volume contains six original short stories and a novel extract, offered in ebook format for the very first time:

Glass
A young girl’s fear of glass has everyone mystified.

A Farewell Performance
A failed actor and a murderous gunman on a rooftop. Will the pen prove mightier than the sword?

The Mayor’s Tale
The little town of Market Hampden finds itself at the centre of a media storm. Mayor Hodges resolves to make the most of it…

Things Lost
It was the summer when everything burned. Amid the fires, two teenagers, on the brink of their future lives, spend an afternoon in a countryside lost in the past.

Weighing of the Heart
Four couples honeymooning on the Nile decide to visit the tomb of the Aga Khan and to witness a proof of deathless love. But will their own marriages turn out so well?

How to Eat a Seagull
An old lady shares one of the secrets of a full and surprising life. Dedicated to Grannies everywhere.

And Stones Shall Dance (extract)
The opening chapters of a novel thirty years in the writing. A Gothic-teen extravaganza combining elements of youthful confusion, millennial anxiety, public schools, witchcraft, archaeology, first sex and hedgehogs, it was voted a bestseller by fellow-writers on youwriteon.com.

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