The best short stories should haunt you for days and weeks. They should startle you and make you want to read more by the same author. In this anthology of 35 new writers you’ll find refreshing, creative voices that will constantly surprise and delight. Most of the writers are published here in print for the first time. Online their work has appeared under the creative writing workshop banner of Bourne to Write, led by the writer, arts critic and broadcaster Roddy Phillips. As they were written for the Workshop many of the stories and poems share themes, lines and subject matter, yet each one is an unique and beautiful lie just waiting to be brought to life - by you the reader.