City Stories

By Adele Cosgrove-Bray

Love, terror and 21st century life! From the heart of cosmopolitan Liverpool come nine thrilling views of modern living.

Blood-drinkers, killers and secrets. Old sorrows and new beginnings. The light and dark of human life set against the glittering backdrop of a reinvigorated city.

City Stories. Tales of life today.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Adele Cosgrove-Bray
• Release date: Nov 7, 2013
• ISBN: 9781310916939

Adele Cosgrove-Bray

Adele Cosgrove-Bray is a writer and artist. Her writing has been widely published traditionally in magazines and anthologies, and she has also explored self-publishing. Her Artisan-Sorcerer novels have drawn an impressive cult following. Other activities include photography, gardening and walking with her dogs through the ancient woodlands of the Wirral peninsula in England.

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City Stories

Edited By

Adele Cosgrove-Bray

City Stories, 1st Edition.

Copyright: Adele Cosgrove-Bray, 2013.

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Cover photo © Richard Cosgrove-Bray

Graphics © Adele Cosgrove-Bray

The Room © Tim Hulme

Noisy Neighbours © William R Jones

My Liverpool Flat © Caroline Hubbard

Gladys © Caroline Hubbard

A Good Turn © Andy Siddle

Maybe She Could Rewrite It © Andy Siddle

Seventy-Two Years Ago © Jason Barney

Sitting in the Rooftop Garden © Jack Horne

Role Play © Adele Cosgrove-Bray

Other Titles by Adele Cosgrove-Bray

Artisan-Sorcerer Series:

Tamsin

Rowan

Bethany Rose

Intimations

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Short Stories:

Seaside Stories (Editor & Contributor)

Dark Tales

Spanish Jones

The Karens

A Wirral Otherkin Trilogy

Quiet Lives

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Poetry:

Entering the Grove

Threads

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Children's Fiction:

The Grumpets

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City Stories

Edited by

Adele Cosgrove-Bray

Love, terror and 21st century life! From the heart of cosmopolitan Liverpool come nine thrilling views of modern living.

Blood-drinkers, killers and secrets. Old sorrows and new beginnings. The light and dark of human life set against the glittering backdrop of a reinvigorated city.

City Stories. Tales of life today.

Acknowledgements

Thanks are due to Andy Siddle and Tim Hulme, who helped with proofreading.

Contents:

The Room - by Tim Hulme

Noisy Neighbours - by William R Jones

My Liverpool Flat - by Caroline Hubbard

Gladys - by Caroline Hubbard

A Good Turn - by Andy Siddle

Maybe She Could Rewrite It - by Andy Siddle

Seventy-Two Years Ago - by Jason Barney

Sitting in the Rooftop Garden - by Jack Horne

Role Play - by Adele Cosgrove-Bray

About the Authors

About Riverside Writers

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The Room

By

Tim Hulme

He remembered this room. The walls were painted in great blocks of khaki and burnt orange, the floor tiled in oblong patterns of olive green, as if some depressed Mondrian had practised his art here and failed. He remembered when this room was full of the laughter of children learning history - real history; and he tried to remember that.

Now it was the Interrogation Room and he was in it alone. He saw no interrogator. There was just the voice through the red microphone high up on one wall. At first he had thought to wrench it from its fixing and smash it through the windows. He could easily