Story of the Week- this week! Reposted because… Find it here and take like a biscuit on the side.
Nuisance Value is a story that you may think is my own swan song. Or more likely a self-description. It has, rather wonderfully, been selected as a finalist for 
Magazine’s Spring Story Competition. It is my rather tongue-in-cheek exposure of the heartlessness of petty local government when it has an agenda for which rather poor people are simply in the way, but in this case they win, though rather poignantly.
It dogs the heels of its companion ‘Blerrie Fockin Beautiful which TODAY has been selected as on of the five top stories of the year (2013-2014) and will be published by Narrative as an audio (read by yours truly with full-throated tobacco effects hopefully edited out!) Watch this space for links in due course.
Just a small celebration.
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Philippa, you top the list for being interesting-mysterious! Love your stuff: sometimes intellectually challenged by it – keep going! We non-genre-writers must stick together …
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Lovely to have a new guest Mari. It sounds as though you’ve visited before and left no footprint! I have never understood ‘genre’ nor, I confess, any conformity to anything. I will never build up a dedicated following since everything I write springs up and bears no resemblance to other things I’ve written. The only common denominator is characters who walk alone. But I guess that figures! Do come often.
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I left a comment at ‘Narrative.’
Sharp and poignant.
The writing is accomplished and witty.
The story reminds me of being co-opted to a village committee while living in the the hills of Somerset UK, where I ‘nearly’ managed to safe a mature oakwood from being clear-felled. The process was similarly hilarious, and heart-wrenching.
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Thank you Ashen for the detour via Narrative, and for reading a kind of nonsense tribute . Pity the legal battle could not be won as easily!
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