{"id":66,"date":"2014-09-07T20:27:15","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T20:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cranswick.org.uk\/judith\/?page_id=66"},"modified":"2018-01-30T15:52:16","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T15:52:16","slug":"events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.judithcranswick.co.uk\/?page_id=66","title":{"rendered":"Short Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

My first publishing successes were with short stories and I have been lucky enough to win numerous prizes and had them published in various magazines and read on\u00a0 radio.<\/p>\n

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This is a mixed collection of ten short stories to suit every mood \u2013 some humorous, some poignant, a ghost story, a tale of revenge, one or two with a dark side and several with a twist in the tail. It contains six prize winning stories including:- ‘Expectations’ – my first success;’Mother Love’ – for which I won a weekend course at Madingley Hall, the University Of Cambridge Institute Of Continuing Education ans \u2018The Culprit\u2019 my first published short story.<\/p>\n

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A second\u00a0collection of prize winning short stories \u2013 some humorous, some spooky, a ghost story, a crime story (though nothing like my novels), a fantasy tale, a couple to pull on the heart strings and quite a few with a twist in the tail. ‘Christmas at the Hall’ is a ghost story and won first prize in a competition organized by ‘The Swindon Advertiser’ and was printed as a double page spread illustrated with a picture of Lydiard Mansion, a local manor house, covered in snow – the perfect setting for my story. I fell in love with my magician in \u2018The Interview\u2019 and went on to write a whole novel, \u2018Mission for a Magician.\u2019<\/p>\n

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This collection includes some humorous stories, the odd poignant one, a science fiction story, a fantasy tale, several explore relationships of family and friendship and most have a twist in the tail. Two of my favourite stories, \u2018Lotus Flower\u2019 and \u2018Trouble at the North Pole\u2019, though very different in style and mood, were both prize winners. Although our visits to foreign places inspire many of my novels, the idea for \u2018Guilt Trip\u2019 came from a picture \u2013 a bald, middle-aged, much tattooed Hell\u2019s Angel sitting on a motorbike with a very ordinary twelve-year girl with a wistful look sitting on the pillion.<\/p>\n

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My first publishing successes were with short stories and I have been lucky enough to win numerous prizes and had them published in various magazines and read on\u00a0 radio.   This is a mixed collection of ten short stories to suit every mood \u2013 some humorous, some poignant, a ghost story, a tale of revenge, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"full-width-content","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-66","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry","6":"has-post-thumbnail"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.judithcranswick.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.judithcranswick.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.judithcranswick.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.judithcranswick.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.judithcranswick.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/www.judithcranswick.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1280,"href":"https:\/\/www.judithcranswick.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66\/revisions\/1280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.judithcranswick.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}