RESULTS: Fish Short Story Prize 2015
Long list
Shortlist
Winners
LONGLIST SHORT STORY PRIZE 2015 (480 stories selected from 1,400)
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Title
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First Name
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Last Name
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Wait For Me Joy Frost
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How to kill friends
and influence people
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Tribal Marks
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Eat and Run
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Episodes
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AFTER
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In the Darkness the Siren’s Song
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The Duel
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The Spotless Chronicles of a One-of-a-Kind Leopard
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Carla Vee
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Ababon
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Tiny Everyday Crimes
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Annabel
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Abbs
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Is Yours Now
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Claire
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Adam
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The Hole in the Fence
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Christine
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Adamson
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The Revenge of Two-Streams O’Malley
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Michael
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Allen
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For the love of muses
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Oana
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Aristide
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Beyond The Waves
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Philip
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Arnold
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Choices
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Louise
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Aronson
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BENEFITS
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Maria
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Ashworth
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Conceptual
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Cait
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Atherton
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Where Unicorns Weep
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Stephen
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Atkinson
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Me & Mr. Tinkles
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Thomas
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Atkinson
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‘Ushering’
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Jennifer
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Bailey
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On the Coast at 65
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James
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Balian
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Lift
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Susan
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Baller-Shepard
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Tiny Hands
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Xanthi
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Barker
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Left Behind
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Elizabeth
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Barrouquere
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Unknown Bulky Contents
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Paul
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Bassett Davies
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Come in for a Cocktail
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kate
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beales
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Orpheus Down Under
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Tim
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Bednall
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Melody Rose
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Dianne
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Beeaff
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Fortune
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honoria
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beirne
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Clair de Lune
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Susan
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Bennett
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Denouement
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Darlene
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Bentley
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The Stars Look Up To Me
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Michael
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Bird
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Dive
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Tavi
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Black
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The Strait
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Grace
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Blackwood
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The Shattering
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Daniel
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Blokh
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Telling Blue
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astra
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bloom
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Black cat dreaming
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astra
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bloom
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Sunset over Lake Garda
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robin
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blyth
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I Confess
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Marie
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Boland
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Lost Invite
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Jessica
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Bonder
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Roll Up x 2
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Sharon
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Boyle
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Bodies of Sand
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Manus
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Boyle Tobin
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The Wooden Indian
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Theodore
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Brady
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Porcelain Doll
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Terese
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Brasen
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Pests
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Maggie
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Breen
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The Great Song
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Rex
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Bromfield
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He’s the One
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Anthony
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Brophy
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Timidity
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dan
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brotzel
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“cotton and crème”
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Chad
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Broughman
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The Pram
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Susanne
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Brownlie
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Icaro
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Linda
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Brucesmith
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THE JUNGLE
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josephine
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bruni
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Dublin Demon
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Louise
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Bunyan
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The Longings of Máire De Búrca
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Ger
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Burke
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A Summer’s Day Odyssey
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Kathryn
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Burke
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SEMELE
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Colin
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Burns
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That Day
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Sarah
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Burton Kennedy
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Ckzmchupach
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Ann
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Cahill
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Day of the black snake
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Alexandra
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Cain
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A Little Trouble with the Spirits
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Deborah
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Cameron
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Promise
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Joanna
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Campbell
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Skye
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Neil
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Campbell
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The Cancerjack
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Sean
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Carabini
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Mammy says
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Mary Lys
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Carbery
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A Few Notes from the End of the World
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Mike
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Carson
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Surface Appearances
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Mike
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Carson
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Leave the Light On
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Enda
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Carty
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If our reduction is not stereospecific,
then how can our product
be enantiomerically pure?
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Aoife
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Casby
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Shared Needles
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Mairead
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Casey
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Not 1914
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Heather
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Chadwick
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On the other hands
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Clare
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Chandler
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White Sparrow
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Melanie
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Cheng
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You Only Kill Your Parents Once
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Cheryl
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Cioci
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Jokes in lemon juice
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Lezanne |
Clannachan |
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What I’ve Got
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Amanda
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Coats
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Blood Orange
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Niamh
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Coen
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Doris Day the Hunter
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Deirdre
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Coffey
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Iceland Horses
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Deirdre
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Coffey
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Terror Cognita
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Louise
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Cole
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A Bit Missing
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Jo
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Colley
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The Land Of Colours And Shapes
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Jon
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Collins
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The Cuckoo and The Moth
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Sara
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Collins
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Hanging Houses
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Kathy
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Conde
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There’s No One New Around You
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chrs
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connolly
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Troll
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chrs
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connolly
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Lady from America
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john austin
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connolly
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ON QUESTS
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Ruaidhri
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Conroy
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THE SADDEST CUFFLINKS INTHE WORLD
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Ruaidhri
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Conroy
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Maybe Baby
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Lynne
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Cook
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Path of the Ground Birds
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James
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Cooper
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The Letting
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Priscilla
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Corbin
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GIRL IN KNOTS!
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Priscilla
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Corbin
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The Party Poodle
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jacqui
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corcoran
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Aground
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Lucy
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Corkhill
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Don’t Look Back
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Julie-Ann
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Corrigan
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Myles To Go
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Frank
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Cossa
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PROLOGUE
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Brian
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Coughlan
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Of the Night
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Michelle
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Coyne
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The Lion
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Steve
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Crow
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Kindred Spirits
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Maureen
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Cullen
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The warm-hot intergalactic medium
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Paul
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Currion
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Visiting Hours
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Conor
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Darrall
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Battery Hens
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Patricia
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Davis
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Seeking Treasure
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Patricia
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Davis
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Wanting
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Jackie
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Davis-Martin
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The interview
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Helen
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de Búrca
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The parrotfish
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Helen
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de Búrca
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P.P.J.A.
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Anne
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de Fornel
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Longshanks & The Brute
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kit
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de waal
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Bella
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Diane
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Demeter
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Feathering The Blade
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Emily
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Devane
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To Woo
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Anthony
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Dew
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Charlie’s Turn
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Susan
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Dillon
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UNDER THE OAK
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Cáit R
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Doherty-Coogan
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Brothers-in-arms
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Ray
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Dolphin
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Half-A-Boy
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Anne
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Donnelly
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Iscariot
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Anne
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Donnelly
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Flyherding for Beginners
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Maria
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Donovan
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The Artist
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Diana
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Dr. Radovan
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Oh Sussana
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Fiona
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Drury
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The Bell
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simon
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duddy
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Step Back In Time
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Ann
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Dufaux
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Bengal Terrace
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Dermot
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Duffy
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Lucky
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Jean
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Duggleby
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Swan Dive
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Janet
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Duignan
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Nighthawks
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Molia
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Dumbleton
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Be A Man
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Julia
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Dunne
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Collecting Unpainted Pictures
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Tatiana
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Duvanova
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Heaven
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Owen
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Dwyer
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A Very Fine Specimen
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Eisen
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Erica
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Big Fish
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Michael
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Erickson
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Head Shrink
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Alun
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Evans
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Loggerheads
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Emer
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Fallon
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Steps to Freedom
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Juliana
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Feaver
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Avalanche Peak and Devine Intervention
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Juliana
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Feaver
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Ming the Clam and Immortal Jellyfish
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Tracy
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Fells
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Not Like Us
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Hilary
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Fennell
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The Braes
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Graeme
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Finnie
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All the empty spaces
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John
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Fitzgerald
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The Stoneman’s Wife
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chris
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fitzgerald
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Apocalypse Systems
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Stephen
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Flanagan
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Molly & Jack at the Seaside
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Lauren
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Foley
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Regula Et Vita
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Larry
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Fondation
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The Goblin Child
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Michael
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Forester
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contested
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fiona
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foskin
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Mistletoe Birds
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Brian
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Fox
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Stage Directions
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Gareth
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Fox
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The First Cut
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Grace
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French
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Bed Rest
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Miriam
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Frendo
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House of Pies
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Barbara
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Fried
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The Fontanel
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Thomas
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Froyland
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And Mama’s Dead Of A Broken Heart
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Keith
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Fryer
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‘Greenbacks’
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Crona
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Gallagher
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Salaud
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gerard
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galvin
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Runt
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gerard
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galvin
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The Last Syllable
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Peter
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Garrett
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The Swim
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Liam
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Gavin
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Agatha Earle
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Tiffanie
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George
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THE STRANGER
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Cosmin
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Gheorghe
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The Faithless Wife
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Penny
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Gibson
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Aliens
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David
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Gibson
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Islands
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Penny
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Gibson
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The Bath
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Sonya
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Gildea
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KEEPING LADY ALICE HAPPY
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Martin
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Gleeson
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No one had missed Kelly yet
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Ann
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Godridge
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The Death Artist
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Goldie
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Goldbloom
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Almost Like Running
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Clare
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Golding
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Judo For Jesus
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Joseph
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Golombek, Jr.
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Class Reunion
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Joseph
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Golombek, Jr.
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Your turn now
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Induka
|
Gomez
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Irish or Something
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Aine
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Greaney
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Quixby
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Michael
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Green
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This Guy Comes into the Shop
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Caroline
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Greene
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Circle City
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Robert
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Grindy
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Sisyphus takes a vacation
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Stuart
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Handysides
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The Goddess of Wealth
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Daniel
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Harper
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PARANORMAL SOCIETY
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John
|
Harris
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SAMANTHA
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Alison
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Harrop
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Thoughts Become Things
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Siobhan
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Harte
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Acts of Cruelty
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Jacqueline P
|
Haskell
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After the raincoat
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Jacqueline P
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Haskell
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The Net
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Jacqueline P
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Haskell
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Allah Akhbar
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patria
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hatami
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The Burglar Trap
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Lander
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Hawes
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THE ACE
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Catherine
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Hawkins
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Four walls
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Gina
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Headden
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The Distance
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keren
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heenan
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Babby’s Lament
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Elizabeth
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Heery
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lay lady lay on your big grass bed
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Michael
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Heffernan
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Out of the Shadows
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Sarah
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Hegarty
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Ullapool
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J.D.
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Hellsinger
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The Bag
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Orla
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Hennessy
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Insane Reality
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Michele
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Henningham
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Three Trebles and a Chain
|
Wayne
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Herbert
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Three Stops To Angel
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joanna
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herrmann
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Julia and Frances
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John
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Hill
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The Meta More Sophist
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Emmet
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Hirsch
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We Went There
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Debz
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Hobbs-Wyatt
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The Skunk Ape
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Jim
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Hohenbary
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True
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John
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Holland
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Why I Live In Mississippi
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Phyllis
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Hollenbeck
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The Eeko of Atdm
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Luke
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Holm
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The Great and Amazing Disappearing You
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Matthew
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Hooton
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Pookies
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Conor
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Houghton
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The end of the world as we know it
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Anthony
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Howcroft
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The Mugging Plague
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Jeremy
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Howell
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The Last of Michiko
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Mandy
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Huggins
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A Lancashire Lane
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Eirik
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Hunt
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When They Kissed They Really Kissed:
A Story in Three Stories
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The Man
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in the Black Pyjamas
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ONCE A BOY NOW A MAN
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Melanie
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Ingram
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A birthday present
|
Gail
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Ingram
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Philosophy Begins With A Ž
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jones
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irwin
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DONNELLY
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jones
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irwin
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Jack the Ink
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sarah
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isaac
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Tayama-tei
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Mariko
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Iwasaki
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Skittery-winter’s Tale
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Olive
|
Jackson
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Another Day at the Office
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Julian
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Jackson
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Six Million Dollar Boys
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Barry
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Jacques
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Her Rocket Ship Still Falling Up
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Alice
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Jolly
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I Have My Suspicions About That
|
Alice
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Jolly
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Rooster Song
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Carol
|
Jones
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Beneath the Sand of the Hourglass
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Chris
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Jones
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Collecting Virtues
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Marc
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Jones
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Kitten Heels
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Marc
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Jones
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There Were Red Roses At The Gas Station
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Jaimee
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Joroff
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Beetle Mania
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Peter
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Jump
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The Announcement
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Haico
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Kaashoek
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Prone
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Anna
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Kalinski
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The Sea Witch
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Dave
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Kavanagh
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Your dream life come true.
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Kevin
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Keely
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KEEPING UP
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Sara
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Keene
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The Tin Whistle
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Jack
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Kelleher
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Goodbye Ringo
|
Jack
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Kelleher
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Unravelling
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Bridgett
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Kendall
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Milkweed and mercy
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Louise
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Kennedy
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Plagium
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Marjorie
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Kennedy
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The Smiles
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Alan
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Keogh
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Snow Load
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Liz
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Kerr
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Minor Ways of Being
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Olivia
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Kiernan
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Black Socks
|
Noel
|
King
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THE CONVENER
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Stella
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Klein
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Cats
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Harriet
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Kline
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The Beauty Contest
|
William
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Konarzewski
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The Renaissance of Thomas Bilney
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William
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Konarzewski
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The Ambassador’s PA
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David
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Kotok
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The Protagonists
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Kieran
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Lambe
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A Small Unfinished Life
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Maria
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Lane
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The Siren of the Central Line
|
John
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Langan
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Marie
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Lauren
|
Lawler
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The Sheer Joy of It All
|
Stephen
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Leach
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Empty Nest
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Johanna
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Leahy
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The Faithful Look Away
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Melissa
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Lee-Houghton
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Within these walls
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Simon
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Lee-Price
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The Fourth of July
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Kathryn
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Legan
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A Man About a Dog
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M.B.
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Lennon
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Deserters
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Julia
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Lichtblau
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Debbie Does Doomsday
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Lex
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Lindsay
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THE BLACK LACE DRESS
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Sarah C
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Linnane
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Lost
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Julie
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Lockwood
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Everybody Wants Baby Girls
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k
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Lockwood Jefford
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Paul Newman Eyes
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k
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Lockwood Jefford
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MISERY LOVES COMPANY
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joe
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lombo
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Good For Carving A Turkey
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virginia
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lowes
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John’s Bird
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Annie
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Lowney
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Summer, 2002
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Nancy
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Ludmerer
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Second Home
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Nancy
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Ludmerer
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The Year of Four
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Nancy
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Ludmerer
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Executions
|
Robert
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Lumsden
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The Remedy
|
Robert
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Lumsden
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Nobody knows the shivering stars
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Niamh
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MacCabe
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Dirty Silver on the Matt Black Rock
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Niamh
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MacCabe
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The Dark Unfathomable Solace Remembered
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Niamh
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MacCabe
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The Lark Ascending
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Niamh
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MacCabe
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Hirundo Rustica
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Niamh
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MacCabe
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This is Unravel
|
Niamh
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MacCabe
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No Fall from Lie
|
Niamh
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MacCabe
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Raindance
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Soudabeh
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MacClancy
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Kelly’s Eye
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Janis
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Mackay
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Tattletale,1994
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Maggie
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Mackay
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Running with the Dog
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Bobby
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MacPherson
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The Living Must Eat
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Meagan
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Macvie
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The Uninvited
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Andre
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Mangeot
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Guitar Hero
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Louise
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Mangos
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Endpoint
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Keeley
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Mansfield
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Spirit in the Sky
|
Nick
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Marsden
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Lost On the Way to Paradise
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Nicola
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Martin
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Certain Trains
|
David
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Mathews
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The Weather at the Dinner Table
|
Jo
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Mazelis
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The Hotel
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Jo
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Mazelis
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Everyone Here Has a Story
|
Eamon
|
Mc Guinness
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Man in a Shed
|
James
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McCabe
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TOM DEMPSEY AND THE MIDDAY TIGER
|
John
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McCabe
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A Pocket Full of Matches
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mahon
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mccann
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Maggie’s Straw Hat
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Veronica
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McGivney
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Evie
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Anna
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McGrail
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Kill The Craic
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David
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McGrath
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The Ballybailte Donkey Derby
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David
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McGrath
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An energetic chorus of love
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Trisha
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McKinney
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Shopping Centre
|
Catherine
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McLoughlin
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Knight Meets Octopus
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Thomas
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McNally
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THE WINTER THEY WIDENED THE ROAD
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Petra
|
McNulty
|
|
Name The Dead
|
Catherine
|
Menon
|
|
Armstrong
|
Erinna
|
Mettler
|
|
Blue, red, blue, red, blue
|
jennifer
|
mills
|
|
Dog Days
|
GUY
|
MITCHELL
|
|
That Was How
|
GUY
|
MITCHELL
|
|
Handsome
|
GUY
|
MITCHELL
|
|
What About Me Mikey?
|
GUY
|
MITCHELL
|
|
My Cousin Harold
|
Jim
|
Moeller
|
|
Like Christians At A Suicide
|
Stuart
|
Molloy
|
|
A corrupt little exercise
|
Donal
|
Moloney
|
|
And now this
|
Donal
|
Moloney
|
|
Not Like Water
|
Safia
|
Moore
|
|
Elevation
|
Luke
|
Morgan
|
|
Russian biscuits are best
|
Vicki
|
Morley
|
|
Blue
|
Linda
|
Moser
|
|
Slainte
|
Linda
|
Moser
|
|
Lancaster Street
|
Linda
|
Moser
|
|
Lone Tree Hill
|
Nikki
|
Mottram
|
|
A Nun’s Arse
|
James
|
Mulhern
|
|
Rabbit Starvation
|
craig
|
mullineaux
|
|
Me and Peter James McGee
|
Pauline
|
Murphy
|
|
Brogan On Adelaide Park
|
Andrew
|
Murphy
|
|
The Fight
|
Daniel
|
Murphy
|
|
Frogs; The City
|
Aengus
|
Murray
|
|
He, revisited
|
Aongus
|
Murtagh
|
|
Dead Things
|
Kate
|
Myers
|
|
This is not a Fairytale
|
M
|
N/A
|
|
Charade
|
May
|
Nasr
|
|
Hit Me Like You Mean It
|
Farid
|
Nassif
|
|
Grime
|
martin
|
nathan
|
|
Almost Theides
|
Manini
|
Nayar
|
|
Almost Angels
|
Charles
|
Nevin
|
|
THE GREEN SHIRT
|
Peter
|
Newall
|
|
CHERRY VARENIKI
|
Peter
|
Newall
|
|
Borderline
|
Richard
|
Newton
|
|
The Unknown Visitor
|
Michael
|
Noonan
|
|
Baby Dragon
|
john
|
norry
|
|
Glassblown Stars
|
Lily
|
Nueva
|
|
Intensive Care
|
Anne
|
O’Brien
|
|
Silence
|
Tom
|
O’Brien
|
|
Pitch
|
Amanda
|
O’Callaghan
|
|
The Buddy Dharma
|
Fiona
|
O’Connor
|
|
The Obituary
|
Clare
|
O’Dea
|
|
Fr Tom
|
Malachi
|
O’Doherty
|
|
Just Like You
|
John
|
O’Donnell
|
|
May Day ’99
|
Jim
|
O’Donoghue
|
|
Accident on Slowackiego Street
|
Jim
|
O’Donoghue
|
|
Corner Boys and a Boot Girl
|
Anthony
|
O’Donovan
|
|
Sunrise
|
Sean
|
O’Leary
|
|
Thursday Nights at the Parochial House
|
Jane
|
O’Neill
|
|
Ghosts and Giants
|
clare
|
O’reilly
|
|
Out Foreign
|
Mary
|
O’Shea
|
|
Teenagers
|
Terry
|
O’Shea
|
|
Strays
|
Donal
|
O’Sullivan
|
|
Inheritance
|
Kath
|
O’Sullivan
|
|
Sea Saw
|
Liz
|
O’Sullivan
|
|
The End of Every Step
|
Sarah
|
Olson
|
|
The Plain
|
Jonathan
|
Page
|
|
One in, one out
|
R
|
Parker
|
|
Dissenters
|
Stuart
|
Paterson
|
|
Business as usual at The Yew Tree
|
Hannah
|
Persaud
|
|
Aequanimitas: Or, How to Fall Out of Love
|
Frances
|
Phillips
|
|
Bad Day for a Prank
|
Matt
|
Pigott
|
|
Like Bonnie and Clyde
|
Jonathan
|
Pinnock
|
|
What’s in a Name?
|
Mark
|
Piper
|
|
Secret Rendezvous
|
Elizabeth
|
Player
|
|
Ghostie Boy
|
Stephen
|
Policoff
|
|
The Switchover
|
Jim
|
Power
|
|
Home from War
|
brendan
|
price
|
|
Nu-life
|
Chris
|
Price
|
|
ONE MOUTH
|
Clare
|
Pugh
|
|
A POSTHUMOUS EMBRACE
|
Troy
|
Ratcliffe
|
|
WILL A SPARROW MOURN FOR JIMMY ALDRIDGE?
|
Troy
|
Ratcliffe
|
|
The Vanishing
|
David
|
Rea
|
|
Pillow Talk
|
Paula
|
Read
|
|
House that Jack Built
|
Russell
|
Reader
|
|
HAPPY NOW
|
Alex
|
Reece Abbott
|
|
The Cat and The Mouse
|
David
|
Revel
|
|
Men of Science, Men of God
|
Amanda
|
Reynolds
|
|
Dialogue
|
Michael
|
Rhodes
|
|
Cwtch
|
Jane
|
Roberts
|
|
Hercules Versus the Unicorn Army
|
Jane
|
Roberts
|
|
Make mine whisky
|
Sue
|
Robertson
|
|
After The Last Train Left.
|
Glenn
|
Robinson
|
|
Exhibit A
|
Tessa
|
Robinson
|
|
Lines of Resistance
|
John
|
Rodgers
|
|
The Day Our Ship Came In
|
Toby
|
Roebuck
|
|
When I See You Again
|
pauline
|
rooney
|
|
the worlds greatest bachelor
|
pauline
|
rooney
|
|
Sea Fret
|
Dilys
|
Rose
|
|
Look there’s a light in the Drumlins.
|
Sean
|
Ross
|
|
A Quiet Frontier
|
a.m
|
ruiz
|
|
Letter to a Friend
|
Paola
|
Ruocco
|
|
An Overnight Success
|
Valerie
|
Ryan
|
|
The Rub of the Green
|
Lynn
|
Sadler
|
|
Phenomenology
|
Michele
|
Sagan
|
|
The Spirit of Repentance
|
Michele
|
Sagan
|
|
Dost-e-Whisky
|
Bashir
|
Sakhawarz
|
|
Anton and the Giant Scale of Justice: A Tale for Adults
|
Nivien
|
Saleh
|
|
First and Last
|
Tom
|
Sanderson
|
|
Membrane
|
Sabah
|
Sanhouri
|
|
Curtain Call
|
Richard
|
Scarsbrook
|
|
Tiger
|
Lynette
|
Schinke
|
|
Maddie Alone
|
Jane
|
Seaford
|
|
A French Exit
|
peter
|
sear
|
|
The Inflation
|
Ian
|
Sears
|
|
Eel
|
Stefanie
|
Seddon
|
|
Zoomorphic Juvenescence
|
Bikram
|
Sharma
|
|
Cousin Peter
|
Barry
|
Sheils
|
|
Trophy
|
Tara
|
Sherman
|
|
Mountain and the Boots
|
Brie
|
Sherow
|
|
The Road With Reasons
|
AHJIN
|
SHIM
|
|
The Good Old Days of Evil
|
Gareth
|
Shore
|
|
The Queen’s Tale
|
Fiona
|
Skepper
|
|
the receiver
|
Tracey
|
Slaughter
|
|
Three Memories of a Young Dragon
|
Dan
|
Sofaer
|
|
In the Empty Heart of a Continent
|
Edmund
|
Soohoo
|
|
Mrs Weber
|
Daniel
|
Soule
|
|
James Dean Daydream
|
Ruby
|
Speechley
|
|
The McAn Man
|
Brian
|
Spellman
|
|
Chasing Dreams through Nightmares
|
Brian
|
Spellman
|
|
Just Visiting
|
Sofia
|
Stambolieva
|
|
Monster: Eight Letters?
|
Lindsay
|
Stanberry-Flynn
|
|
Her Own Woman
|
Lindsay
|
Staniforth
|
|
Returns
|
John
|
Staples
|
|
The Air Con Queen
|
Shanna
|
Streich
|
|
9th and Pine, 1989
|
Sam
|
Sudar
|
|
Oviparous
|
Sam
|
Sudar
|
|
The Menace at the Gate (but not the same as last time)
|
Janet
|
Swinney
|
|
In May
|
Jasmine
|
Szabo-Knox
|
|
Sundowners
|
Mandy
|
Taggart
|
|
Richard’s Grief
|
catherine
|
talbot
|
|
One of Those Things
|
Daniel
|
Tantanella
|
|
Mother’s Keepers
|
Jeff
|
Taylor
|
|
The Sea
|
Tracey
|
Taylor
|
|
Second Lives
|
Lisa C.
|
Taylor
|
|
Full of Grace
|
Phyllida
|
Taylor
|
|
A WOMAN’S INTUIUTION
|
Judith
|
Tipping
|
|
SHIRLEY’S GOLD HERITAGE
|
Neila
|
Todd
|
|
Snake Oil for the Third Millennium
|
Peter
|
Tonkin
|
|
Odin’s Birds
|
Sylvia
|
Torti
|
|
Salt
|
Kate
|
Tregaskis
|
|
The Sun And The Moon Were Out
|
Annette
|
Trevitt
|
|
Fish Eye
|
Adam
|
Trodd
|
|
Angel of death
|
Marcus
|
Tse
|
|
Graduation Day
|
Jennie
|
Tucker
|
|
The Stolen Day
|
Jennie
|
Tucker
|
|
Revelations At The Hot Spot
|
Jennie
|
Tucker
|
|
Perilous Illusions
|
George
|
Tuohy
|
|
Nashville
|
Judith
|
Turner-Yamamoto
|
|
How Do You Know Them?
|
Dave
|
Tynan
|
|
Semi-Beauty and the Beast
|
Emily Claire
|
Utley
|
|
Abducted And Raped By Aliens
|
Bob
|
Van Laerhoven
|
|
Ducks
|
Peter
|
Vey
|
|
Flattery’s Tale
|
Michael
|
Vigor
|
|
Two Nothing
|
Martin
|
Wakefield
|
|
The Scent of Oranges
|
Francesca
|
Walsh
|
|
The French Exchange
|
Elizabeth
|
Walter
|
|
Fisherman’s Rib
|
Phillipa
|
Warden Hill
|
|
Casserole Queens
|
Bill
|
Watkins
|
|
The Boy Who Ran
|
Christoph
|
Weber
|
|
Courtship
|
Philippa
|
West
|
|
“The Setting Sun”
|
Star
|
Westbrook Earle
|
|
African Grey
|
melanie
|
whipman
|
|
A Lesson in Collaboration
|
Polly Ann
|
White
|
|
Grapefruit
|
Ellen
|
Wiles
|
|
Landlady Of The Flies
|
Michelle
|
Wilker
|
|
Silos
|
Scott
|
Williamson
|
|
Of Human Frailty
|
Sarah
|
Willis
|
|
The Gilt Thief
|
Chloe
|
Wilson
|
|
The Reviewer
|
Michele
|
Wong
|
|
Pisces
|
Susan
|
Wood
|
|
Charlie’s Book
|
Peter
|
Woodbridge
|
|
bRuddy
|
David
|
Woods
|
|
Iced Buns for Barry
|
james
|
woolf
|
|
Shifting Stuff
|
James Bernie
|
Yeo
|
|
I Believe in Miracles
|
Richard
|
Ziglar
|
|
Faith in the Unreal World
|
Les
|
Zigomanis
|
SHORTLIST: Fish Short Story Prize 2015 (143 stories selected from 1,400)
|
TITLE
|
Name |
Surname |
|
The Duel
|
|
|
|
The Hole in the Fence
|
Christine
|
Adamson
|
|
Conceptual
|
Cait
|
Atherton
|
|
Me & Mr. Tinkles
|
Thomas
|
Atkinson
|
|
Unknown Bulky Contents
|
Paul
|
Bassett Davies
|
|
Come in for a Cocktail
|
kate
|
beales
|
|
Clair de Lune
|
Susan
|
Bennett
|
|
He’s the One
|
Anthony
|
Brophy
|
|
“cotton and crème”
|
Chad
|
Broughman
|
|
THE JUNGLE
|
josephine
|
bruni
|
|
A Summer’s Day Odyssey
|
Kathryn
|
Burke
|
|
A Little Trouble with the Spirits
|
Deborah
|
Cameron
|
|
Skye
|
Neil
|
Campbell
|
|
If our reduction is not stereospecific,
then how can our product
be enantiomerically pure?
|
Aoife
|
Casby
|
|
Jokes in lemon juice
|
Lezanne
|
Clannachan
|
|
What I’ve Got
|
Amanda
|
Coats
|
|
Hanging Houses
|
Kathy
|
Conde
|
|
Troll
|
chrs
|
connolly
|
|
Lady from America
|
john austin
|
connolly
|
|
GIRL IN KNOTS!
|
Priscilla
|
Corbin
|
|
The Party Poodle
|
jacqui
|
corcoran
|
|
Myles To Go
|
Frank
|
Cossa
|
|
The Lion
|
Steve
|
Crow
|
|
Kindred Spirits
|
Maureen
|
Cullen
|
|
Seeking Treasure
|
Patricia
|
Davis
|
|
Bella
|
Diane
|
Demeter
|
|
To Woo
|
Anthony
|
Dew
|
|
UNDER THE OAK
|
Cáit R
|
Doherty-Coogan
|
|
Brothers-in-arms
|
Ray
|
Dolphin
|
|
Iscariot
|
Anne
|
Donnelly
|
|
Bengal Terrace
|
Dermot
|
Duffy
|
|
Be A Man
|
Julia
|
Dunne
|
|
Heaven
|
Owen
|
Dwyer
|
|
Big Fish
|
Michael
|
Erickson
|
|
Head Shrink
|
Alun
|
Evans
|
|
Loggerheads
|
Emer
|
Fallon
|
|
The Stoneman’s Wife
|
chris
|
fitzgerald
|
|
Apocalypse Systems
|
Stephen
|
Flanagan
|
|
Molly & Jack at the Seaside
|
Lauren
|
Foley
|
|
Regula Et Vita
|
Larry
|
Fondation
|
|
The Fontanel
|
Thomas
|
Froyland
|
|
Runt
|
gerard
|
galvin
|
|
Agatha Earle
|
Tiffanie
|
George
|
|
Aliens
|
David
|
Gibson
|
|
Islands
|
Penny
|
Gibson
|
|
Class Reunion
|
Joseph
|
Golombek, Jr.
|
|
Quixby
|
Michael
|
Green
|
|
Circle City
|
Robert
|
Grindy
|
|
The Net
|
Jacqueline P
|
Haskell
|
|
The Burglar Trap
|
Lander
|
Hawes
|
|
The Distance
|
keren
|
heenan
|
|
Out of the Shadows
|
Sarah
|
Hegarty
|
|
Insane Reality
|
Michele
|
Henningham
|
|
Why I Live In Mississippi
|
Phyllis
|
Hollenbeck
|
|
The Mugging Plague
|
Jeremy
|
Howell
|
|
When They Kissed They Really Kissed:
A Story in Three Stories
|
The Man
|
in the Black Pyjamas
|
|
A birthday present
|
Gail
|
Ingram
|
|
DONNELLY
|
jones
|
irwin
|
|
Another Day at the Office
|
Julian
|
Jackson
|
|
Six Million Dollar Boys
|
Barry
|
Jacques
|
|
Her Rocket Ship Still Falling Up
|
Alice
|
Jolly
|
|
I Have My Suspicions About That
|
Alice
|
Jolly
|
|
Beetle Mania
|
Peter
|
Jump
|
|
The Renaissance of Thomas Bilney
|
William
|
Konarzewski
|
|
The Sheer Joy of It All
|
Stephen
|
Leach
|
|
The Faithful Look Away
|
Melissa
|
Lee-Houghton
|
|
The Fourth of July
|
Kathryn
|
Legan
|
|
A Man About a Dog
|
M.B.
|
Lennon
|
|
Deserters
|
Julia
|
Lichtblau
|
|
Debbie Does Doomsday
|
Lex
|
Lindsay
|
|
Paul Newman Eyes
|
k
|
Lockwood Jefford
|
|
Summer, 2002
|
Nancy
|
Ludmerer
|
|
Second Home
|
Nancy
|
Ludmerer
|
|
The Year of Four
|
Nancy
|
Ludmerer
|
|
The Lark Ascending
|
Niamh
|
MacCabe
|
|
Hirundo Rustica
|
Niamh
|
MacCabe
|
|
This is Unravel
|
Niamh
|
MacCabe
|
|
No Fall from Lie
|
Niamh
|
MacCabe
|
|
Lost On the Way to Paradise
|
Nicola
|
Martin
|
|
Man in a Shed
|
James
|
McCabe
|
|
TOM DEMPSEY AND THE MIDDAY TIGER
|
John
|
McCabe
|
|
Shopping Centre
|
Catherine
|
McLoughlin
|
|
Name The Dead
|
Catherine
|
Menon
|
|
Armstrong
|
Erinna
|
Mettler
|
|
Blue, red, blue, red, blue
|
jennifer
|
mills
|
|
Handsome
|
GUY
|
MITCHELL
|
|
What About Me Mikey?
|
GUY
|
MITCHELL
|
|
Like Christians At A Suicide
|
Stuart
|
Molloy
|
|
A corrupt little exercise
|
Donal
|
Moloney
|
|
And now this
|
Donal
|
Moloney
|
|
Not Like Water
|
Safia
|
Moore
|
|
Elevation
|
Luke
|
Morgan
|
|
Russian biscuits are best
|
Vicki
|
Morley
|
|
Lancaster Street
|
Linda
|
Moser
|
|
A Nun’s Arse
|
James
|
Mulhern
|
|
Brogan On Adelaide Park
|
Andrew
|
Murphy
|
|
The Fight
|
Daniel
|
Murphy
|
|
Frogs; The City
|
Aengus
|
Murray
|
|
Dead Things
|
Kate
|
Myers
|
|
Hit Me Like You Mean It
|
Farid
|
Nassif
|
|
Almost Theides
|
Manini
|
Nayar
|
|
Almost Angels
|
Charles
|
Nevin
|
|
CHERRY VARENIKI
|
Peter
|
Newall
|
|
Borderline
|
Richard
|
Newton
|
|
Silence
|
Tom
|
O’Brien
|
|
Pitch
|
Amanda
|
O’Callaghan
|
|
The Buddy Dharma
|
Fiona
|
O’Connor
|
|
Aequanimitas: Or, How to Fall Out of Love
|
Frances
|
Phillips
|
|
WILL A SPARROW MOURN FOR JIMMY ALDRIDGE?
|
Troy
|
Ratcliffe
|
|
The Vanishing
|
David
|
Rea
|
|
The Cat and The Mouse
|
David
|
Revel
|
|
Dialogue
|
Michael
|
Rhodes
|
|
Hercules Versus the Unicorn Army
|
Jane
|
Roberts
|
|
Make mine whisky
|
Sue
|
Robertson
|
|
the worlds greatest bachelor
|
pauline
|
rooney
|
|
A Quiet Frontier
|
a.m
|
ruiz
|
|
First and Last
|
Tom
|
Sanderson
|
|
Zoomorphic Juvenescence
|
Bikram
|
Sharma
|
|
Cousin Peter
|
Barry
|
Sheils
|
|
Mountain and the Boots
|
Brie
|
Sherow
|
|
the receiver
|
Tracey
|
Slaughter
|
|
Three Memories of a Young Dragon
|
Dan
|
Sofaer
|
|
James Dean Daydream
|
Ruby
|
Speechley
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Chasing Dreams through Nightmares
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Brian
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Spellman
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Oviparous
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Sam
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Sudar
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The Menace at the Gate (but not the same as last time)
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Janet
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Swinney
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In May
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Jasmine
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Szabo-Knox
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Richard’s Grief
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catherine
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talbot
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Second Lives
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Lisa C.
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Taylor
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Full of Grace
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Phyllida
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Taylor
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Salt
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Kate
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Tregaskis
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The Sun And The Moon Were Out
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Annette
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Trevitt
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Nashville
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Judith
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Turner-Yamamoto
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Abducted And Raped By Aliens
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Bob
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Van Laerhoven
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Ducks
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Peter
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Vey
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Flattery’s Tale
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Michael
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Vigor
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The Scent of Oranges
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Francesca
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Walsh
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African Grey
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melanie
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whipman
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Of Human Frailty
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Sarah
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Willis
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The Gilt Thief
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Chloe
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Wilson
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The Reviewer
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Michele
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Wong
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Shifting Stuff
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James Bernie
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Yeo
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I Believe in Miracles
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Richard
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Ziglar
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WINNERS of the 2015 Fish Short Story Prize
The ten stories chosen by judge Kevin Barry will be published in the 2016 Fish Anthology, which will be launched at the West Cork Literary Festival in July ‘16. We would like to thank Kevin for giving his time and expertise, judging the prize. His comments on the winning stories are with each title below.
Congratulations to the ten winners, their stories emerging from a field of 1,400.
The long and short lists will be published within the next day or two on the Fish website.
*The 2016 Fish Short Story Prize is now open for submissions. Judge is Neel Mukherjee. Closing 30 Nov. *
1st (The prize is €3,000, and a creative writing workshop with Claire Keegan at the West Cork Literary Festival).
Frogs; The City by Aengus Murray (Dublin, Ireland)
This is a story that mightn’t be for everyone but it was totally up my street. I was really sucked into its world – I found it utterly convincing. It’s a kind of a fable that leans in towards reality and then quickly pulls back from it again. It’s got a really lovely voice; it’s tone or note is very well got indeed. The story is as funny and sad as its memorable narrator. Like the best stories, its workings are mysterious – you don’t know how it all holds together, but it does.
2nd (The prize is €300 and a week’s residence at Anam Cara Writers Retreat).
When They Kissed They Really Kissed by The Man in the Black Pyjamas (Dublin, Ireland)
A really interesting structure, with some tremendous writing all the way through. There’s a real intensity to it. I’m not sure if the story benefits when its references to The Dead are brought above the surface – I don’t think it needs these to work on its own terms; or maybe they could be left submerged. But this is a quibble against a very, very fine piece of work. A real writer is pulling the strings on this one.
3rd (The prize is €300)
Conceptual by Cait Atherton (UK)
This is very funny, and the voice is so very well done, but then it all builds up to something even funnier, and darker. And it’s very touching, too. It threw me – I should have twigged where it was going but I didn’t, at all. Great stuff.
Runners-up.
Circle City by Robert Grindy (Illinois, USA)
Tremendous comic energy and characterisation. Great on place and the detail seems to be very authentic. Maybe there’s a tendency to tell a little more than show but it’s a terrific story.
Clair de Lune by Susan Bennett (Australia)
The writing wears its finery unashamedly. It’s very sensitive to time, place, mores. It tells a good old-fashioned story.
To Woo by Anthony Dew (York, England)
I really like our odd little narrator friend. The story is funny and strange and it keeps the reader guessing. And I very much like the nutty ending.
Nashville by Judith Turner-Yamamoto (Cincinatti, Ohio, USA)
A very well-made story, and it’s full of real feeling, with a wealth of harsh nostalgia. It captures precisely the moment in a young life when all seems lost but all may yet be there to play for.
Me And Mr Tinkles by Thomas Atkinson (Ohio, USA)
This is a story that builds very powerfully, line by line, and then builds some more. I think it’s conceivably one draft short of where it should be but it has a real effect on the reader, and the ending is tremendous.
Jokes in Lemon Juice by Lezanne Clanachan (West Sussex, UK, via Denmark)
There is some very nice and unexpected detail in this. The story carries real emotion and a kind of strangeness, too, which I found oddly moving.
The Sun And The Moon Were Out by Annette Trevitt (Victoria, Australia)
A tangled web of a story, again with great detail all along the way. It keeps the thumb moving through the pages, and the style is very fine.
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