A disturbance in the garden, a voice that shouldn’t have been there, and a growing sense that something is terribly wrong. As Alison and Ken delve deeper into the legend of Ceridwen, a meeting with a Welsh historian raises more questions than answers. Are they uncovering an ancient mystery, or has something already begun to follow them?
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Short Story Sunday Part 2 Paws four, Fort
The morning after a very strange Hallowe’en, Ken and Alison have questions.
Unfortunately, nobody else in the village seems to have noticed anything unusual.
A little digging leads them to the legend of Ceridwen – and the unsettling discovery that what they witnessed follows an ancient story rather too closely for comfort.
If something from Welsh mythology really did appear in their village, there is one particularly awkward question left to answer:
Why here? And why now?
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Short Story Sunday Part 1 The Ghost of Ceridwen
Alison and Ken thought they knew what to expect from Hallowe’en: too many plastic skeletons, questionable seasonal merchandise and perhaps a hot toddy at the pub.
They weren’t expecting the woman in red.
Nor the hare she was chasing.
And they certainly weren’t expecting either of them to start changing shape.
What begins as an ordinary Hallowe’en in a quiet Welsh village is about to become something far older, stranger and considerably more complicated.
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The Seventh Chair – Kirst D’Raven
Six women. Seven chairs. One invitation that makes no sense. Around a dinner table where time has apparently stopped, Florence Nightingale, Beatrix Potter, Maria Dickin, Lilian Bland, Elsie Inglis and Eglantyne Jebb discover they have rather more in common than history remembers. But one place remains empty. And perhaps it was never meant for them.
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His Greatest Trick – Simon Axford
Short Story Sunday presents ‘His Greatest Trick’ by Simon Axford. A celebrated illusionist captivates his audience with a thrilling show leading to a new trick called ‘Into the Abyss.’ However, the performance doesn’t go exactly as planned.
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The Last Honest Man – Kirst D’Raven
This week’s Short Story Sunday
The photograph was fake. Perry could prove it. He had the original files, the editing layers and a confession from the man who made it. But hidden inside the hoax was something nobody had added – A face watching from an upstairs window of an abandoned children’s home…
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Old Magic – Simon Axford
Short Story Sunday presents Old Magic by Simon Axford – a story set in the universe of his new novel – ‘I Know How This Goes’
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The Woman Who Came Back – Simon Axford
Ellie returns home to find a stranger in her kitchen and a perfectly good cup chipped. Unfortunately for him, Ellie has survived considerably worse things than an unexpected houseguest…
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A Matter of Statistics – Kirst D’Raven
Dr Carrie Dale has spent years uncovering the truth behind unexplained deaths. But when a week of increasingly bizarre fatalities lands on her mortuary table, coincidence begins to feel like conspiracy. As the bodies pile up, Carrie finds herself chasing an impossible pattern – and wondering whether Death itself has developed a very dark sense of humour. A macabre, witty tale where statistics, fate and forensic science collide.
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The Puppy Nobody Claimed – Kirst D’Raven
Short Story Sunday
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The Last Sheaf – Simon Axford
This week’s short story on Sunday tells the tale of a fully trained agricultural contractor, who quickly finds out that the ‘old ways’ can sometimes be the right way too.
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The Tide Between The Stars – Kirst D’Raven
On a calm night, fisherman Joe Lyche heads out alone expecting nothing more than silence, stars and a decent catch.
What follows is an encounter that leaves Joe questioning everything he knows about the sea…
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The Last Witness. – Kirst D’Raven
Short Story Sunday
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The Widows Garden – Kirst D’Raven
Short Story Sunday! The Widows Garden
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The Fourth Keeper – Kirst D’Raven
It’s Short Story Sunday!
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The Linesman – Kirst D’Raven
There are places in Britain where the past never truly leaves. Old churches. Quiet stations. Lonely roads across the moors. And, sometimes… football grounds…
