Roberta leaves her six-week-old in the car as she nips to the shop. Surely nothing can go wrong when she’s only gone for a minute?
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Keith sunk all his money into a luxury cruise liner . . . so when his death from a gunshot wound to the head is ruled as a suicide, his fiancée Ramona King finds it hard to believe. Her prime suspect is the ship’s owner, the devastatingly handsome Damon King. But when they meet the passion between them is hard to deny.
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And, great news and you are just in time to enter: The Royal Society of Literature has launched a short story competition that is now open for submissions!
The prize was founded by the RSL at the beginning of the new millennium to commemorate the centenary of an author widely regarded as the finest English short-story writer of the 20th century, and to preserve a tradition encompassing Pritchett’s mastery of narrative.
The annual prize of £1,000 goes to the best unpublished short story of the year. The winning entry is also published in Prospect magazine and the RSL Review. This year’s judges are Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Paul McVeigh and Emma Jane Unsworth.
Submission deadline is Friday 20th of August.
Find more about the prize at: https://rsliterature.org/award/v-s-pritchett-short-story-prize/
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