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Short stories/flash fiction appearing on strange bOUnce, arranged by main sport featured:
Athletics ¦ Baseball ¦ Basketball ¦ Boxing ¦ Cards ¦ Chess ¦ Cricket ¦ Football ¦ Greyhound/Horse Racing ¦ Hockey ¦ Rugby ¦ Snooker ¦ Miscellaneous
Mr Dorsitt’s Great Vacation Exhibition - The accompanying narrative to a Weymouth art project.
His Final Act - A dreadful twist in the Olympic 100m final.
Surprise - Ed Zacahary finally gets the joke in this baseball story.
Silhouettes And Twelve Bar – A noir story with a gruesome ending.
Easts, Shoots And Leaves - A Geordie visits the States and ends up with an unlikely prize.
Heavy Manners – This terrible “rastaman” stand-up from a Hell’s Kitchen comedy club has booked himself a slightly different gig.
Biting The Hand That Feeds You - A March Madness b-ball piece, with gratitude and apologies to Drew Carey.
On The Ropes - Boxing, homelessness, and doing the right thing.
Inner Demons - Hallowe’en special no 4 (poker).
The Ace Of Spades - Hallowe’en special no 3 (poker).
A Devilish Game - Hallowe’en special no 2 (poker).
Demons At The Trough - Hallowe’en special no 1 (poker).
The Red Maria - A cautionary tale about the dangers of Three Card Monte.
The Devil’s Own Luck - Who’s the old lady at the poker table?
Our Knight’s Day - An epic battle, as told by a chess piece.
The Stoat In The Dark Glasses - Grounhopping, a blind man and a lesson learned?
The Modern Way – Man 2.0 has arrived, and it’s not pretty.
Visiting Time - A very short piece of flash fiction about an old man’s story.
What Are The Odds?! - That day when the accumulator finally comes off.
The Bastard In The Black – A referee gets his revenge.
Big Shot - A footballer who’s grown too big for his boots finally gets that’s coming to him.
Clean Getaway - Girls’ soccer teams can be a real handful, especially on a New York field trip.
Poverty Gap - This public school headmaster has an interesting story to tell his dentist before the gas kicks in.
The Case Of The Caretaker Detectives - What can happen when you take fantasy football just a little too seriously.
Anthony Tangos With The Big Boys - Anthony the ant seemingly has everything, but he’s still not content.
Janie In My Heart - Liverpool FC (and especially Fernando Torres) help a desperate man deal with cancer.
Death Of A Champion - Plain bad luck for this superstar footballer.
Climbing The Mountain - Fabrice Muamba’s miracle recovery inspired this beautiful short story.
The Drop - Relegation from the Premier League is always hard to take — but is it worthy of suicide?
The Real Four Lions - A worrying tale of terrorism at Wembley Stadium.
The Loners - Two very different men cross paths on a Saturday afternoon.
The Role Of A Friend - What’s more important: a friendship or a place in the starting XI?
Mister Green’s Big FA Cup Finale - A children’s story of dreams and little comforts, inspired by the Anfield Cat.
Free Lance - Fed up of journalism, this writer decides to pack it in. Not that the author ever got that far…
Hell To Pay - Be careful what you wish for — and what you promise. Especially when it comes to penalties.
Serialised story about a suit who jumps in with both feet before checking the fine print:
The Legend Of Sami Amaretti - Oodles of talent, beer and women. Remind you of anyone?
Futureball - Sport in a post-apocalyptic world — Wall-E for adults.
For The Team - Losing Hurts. Some take it harder than others.
The Adventure Of The Rose-Tinted Spectacles - Moriaty’s involved in this football detective mystery.
Team Supreme - A sci fi tale about genetically modified sportsmen.
What’s In A Name? - Why can’t Tommy Fitzwallace catch a break in football management?
A League Of Men Reborn - 13 August 1919, a special date for English football.
Sophoclean Soccer - An unlikely comeback in a European game. By a professor, this one.
To Coin A Phrase - Never get sold a dummy – unless you’re a hack looking for a catchy phrase.
Alfie’s Big Ban - Luis Suarez, the racism row and a schoolboy error.
The Penalty - Punishment for doping in 2048 is a penalty against a supernatural goalkeeper.
Escocia! Argentinos! Vamos! Hoots Mon The Noo! - What do this Scottish and Argentine football fan have in common?
The Elders of Safed - Pro author Lavie Tidhar drops by with some Israeli flash fiction.
The Totem - Yes, it’s about Carlos Tevez and Manchester City.
They’re Here, You Know - The inner workings of a betting man.
Dark Horses - Will this be the day the big bet finally comes off? If it was good enough for King Billy…
Tiny Dancer - Paul Scholes wasn’t the only one to come out of retirement in 2012.
The Coward’s Way Out - When is it right to end the life of a beloved animal?
Requiem For A Goaltender - Hockey and its life changing influence.
The Five Minute Bell - The sounds, smells and thoughts of a player before a big rugby game.
Forever Snookered - The pink is the ball between the light grey and the dark grey.
Uneven Table - Nought’s fair in love and snooker.
Cue The Battle - Alternative preview to the Snooker World Championship.
Ping Pong Eggs – Surreal.
The Specialist - This unorthodox doctor might just have the answer.
Gateball In Valdorra And Expressions Of Love - What can Anton Lucendo, the hapless hero, teach us?
The Battle - Warfare in the snow in Montreal.
Light In The Darkness - Luddites in a space race, whatever next? A morality tale.
