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How many characters can a short story accommodate?

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

      Some people had trouble downloading the report on PDF (How many characters can a short story accommodate 2 pdf) and some quite rightly don’t trust documents from the internet, so here it is in glorious WordPressy HTML! For the (obviously erudite and entertaining) preamble, go here.       How many characters can a short story accommodate?       Introduction       We have all read novels in which entire dynasties of personnel are detailed, each individual with their own plot arc from the tiniest bit player to the central character. The theory goes that a novel has time … Continue reading How many characters can a short story accommodate?

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Comic Relief

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

    Every two years in the UK, madness breaks out. We stick on red clown noses, sit in baths of baked beans, and shave our heads. Well, not all of us, obviously, but enough to prompt the rest of us to cough up cash to help disadvantaged people here and abroad.  Comic Relief is the uncontained, arsey version of Children in Need and even our senior politicians feel obliged to take part. My bit is easy – I’m asking you to flex your muscles while I sit here and wait. There are eleven comments on my little bit of … Continue reading Comic Relief

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Blue Bell Hotel

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

It is a while since I wrote a review about the Blue Bell Hotel in Burton Agnes but I still have visitors whose search terms feature Alex Polizzi – or occasionally her legs – and I am reminded that it is probably time for an update. My first review was not wholly complimentary although there was hope for movement in the right direction. If nothing else, the hotel was the real deal when it came to customer service, it was just that they were able to demonstrate their absolute willingness to oblige more often when putting something right than when getting it right in the first place. We have stayed there since and it is fair to say it has had its ups and downs … Continue reading Blue Bell Hotel

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Christmas lights and a world tour

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

The lights only twinkle in the powerpoint show which WordPress won’t let me embed, and the tour is virtual but hey! In my other life I have just retired after 40-odd years in public health services so I have been tracing some footprints in what has become a trilogy in four parts. They go So long and thanks for …, After the bedpan years, My dad’s gone to Mars, and So where was I …? Whatever you celebrate at this time of year, I wish you the very best of company, comfort, and contentment for it, and a sizzlingly inspirational 2013/5773/1434/wibbly wobbly yeary weary … Continue reading Christmas lights and a world tour

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Originally posted on The World of Special Olympics:
John Franklin Stephens The following is a guest post in the form of an open letter from Special Olympics athlete and global messenger John Franklin Stephens to Ann Coulter after this tweet during last night’s Presidential debate. Dear Ann Coulter, Come on Ms. Coulter, you aren’t dumb and you aren’t shallow.  So why are you continually using a word like the R-word as an insult? I’m a 30 year old man with Down syndrome who has struggled with the public’s perception that an intellectual disability means that I am dumb and shallow.… Continue reading

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‘Red is for Go’

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

Red is for Go’,  is on E. Victoria Flynn’s Roadside Attractions today. ‘Which one of us died?’  ‘He did. Back then.’  ‘And now?’ She looked up at the ceiling, at the bright carriage lights that cast unforgiving shadows under the sleep deprived eyes of its hot-desking passengers … ‘  Time travel? Ghost story? A dream? You decide. Definitely a love story though. Continue reading ‘Red is for Go’

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‘The Justice box’ up now on Ether Books

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

‘Jesus loves her, Jesus loves her, Jesus loves the murdering bitch.’ Emmy chuckles to herself in that private way only people whose heads are somewhere else can do. She hunches up on the bed and grabs her knees; pulling them up to her chin, and hugging them like babies. ‘Pretty boys,’ she says; and bites into her knee cap. On Ether Books now. Continue reading ‘The Justice box’ up now on Ether Books

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‘The Justice Box’

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

‘Jesus loves her, Jesus loves her, Jesus loves the murdering bitch.’ Emmy chuckles to herself in that private way only people whose heads are somewhere else can do. She hunches up on the bed and grabs her knees; pulling them up to her chin, and hugging them like babies. ‘Pretty boys,’ she says; and bites into her knee cap. On Ether Books September 2012 Continue reading ‘The Justice Box’

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