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THE PRIVATE LIFE OF WILBERFORCE WINDCHEATER (SYNOPSIS)
Submitted by whouster on Sat, 2009-11-21 18:36.THE PRIVATE LIFE OF WILBERFORCE WINDCHEATER (SYNOPSIS)
Wilberforce Malcolm Windcheater is a baby boom nerd. Mollycoddled by mother, frowned upon by father, and looked upon as an embarrassment by elder sister.
Grace Jemima Windcheater was conceived on VE night, and displays the drama and magnitude of her day of creation throughout her life – leaving behind a trail of broken hearts, empty wallets, imprisonment and death.
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The Private Life of Wilberforce Windcheater
Submitted by whouster on Mon, 2009-03-16 22:45.Wilberforce Malcolm Windcheater is a middle aged, acne scarred, heavily bespectacled and highly balding man. He has the social skills of a wasp caked in plutonium, and still lives at home. His life story is now being told...read on.
Chapter XIII
Mr Leyland kept a studious eye on the assembly as the children made their through We Plough The Fields And Scatter, accompanied by the rocking Miss Hussey on piano.
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Wilberforce Discovers the Teenage Delights of Self Abuse
Submitted by whouster on Sun, 2009-03-15 23:10.Chapter XIX
On Sunday, June fourteenth 1970, Albert Windcheater and Tommy Trite marvelled at the advance of technology that allowed live television pictures to be beamed into the living room they were sat in.
The old gents pleaded with young Wilberforce to join them for the evening televisual feast, but the physically and emotionally tortured boy would have none of it.
“We’ve had it now that Banksie’s gone down with that bug.”
Albert was even more worried than when Greavsie was elbowed from the final four years earlier.
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A Vision of Utopia
Submitted by whouster on Sun, 2009-03-15 22:54."A Vision of Utopia" is a comedy novel exploring the afterlife adventures of a piano teacher. The central character of the story becomes a guardian angel to a reformed alcoholic - and here is a sample (not for the squeamish!)
Chapter Twenty-six
The afterlife is, in the main, a wonderfully utopian experience.
The overriding frustrations of the left behind physical world is now
a distant memory, as combinations of happy meetings with passed-
over friends and relatives, reliving the ghosts of the situations of
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Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Award 2008
Submitted by noid on Thu, 2008-08-07 14:52.Very Short Fiction Award
We are interested in reading your original, unpublished stories!
(We don't publish stories for children, I'm sorry.) Multiple
submissions are fine. (You can send more than one submission per
competition, if you like, or submit the same story for different
categories, if it qualifies). When we accept a story for publication,
we are purchasing first-publication rights. (Once we've published your
story, you are free to, for instance, include it in your own
collection.)
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