How chuffed was I to win a copy of the new short story compilation just published by Headline - answer: VERY VERY.Haven't had a chance to dive in just yet, but with Joe Hill, Michael Marshall Smith, Peter Straub and loads of other favourite authors, it's going to be a great read I'm sure.
Many thanks to Sam Eades for arranging the competition and the subsequent twitter Q&A with @waterstones by Mr Gaiman @neilhimself (where I was fortunate to get in with the last question, asking him if he had plans for a second volume, to which he replied that he'd love to, as there were so many other great writers who didn't make it into the first volume.
And the competition I had to enter to win this beautiful book?
Well, I got very carried away, so here are some of my entries below...... :)
#stories – 9 entries of 131 characters, plus the #stories hashtag, to win a copy of ‘stories’ edited by Neil Gaiman.
1.
#stories, I love stories. Stories your father used to read me, the stories he made up, but the very best one will be your story.
2.
I don’t believe you, there was no monster, no demon. You made the whole thing up again didn’t you, eh? You and your crazy #stories.
3.
He’d always loved #stories – listening to them, reading them and now, writing them. What he didn’t know was they were now coming true
4.
He was risking everything, he knew that. He had a job, one that paid the bills, but he also preferred just to write his #stories.
5.
They were just #stories, right? The killer didn’t really live round this way. It didn’t help though – the shadowy figure was there.
6.
He stood and watched in silence. The dark shape moved in the trees above. He didn’t want to believe that the #stories might be true.
7.
He told us #stories – they came true. Whatever the stranger told of, it appeared. Was it a magic? Or was it something darker & evil?
8.
Just your flippin’ #stories again! Never believe you anymore. The boy looked back at his mother, then held up his bloodied hands.
9.
There are rhymes, poems and fictions, but all are just #stories, stories to be told and, what’s more, to be lived out by us.
No comments:
Post a Comment