The Outlier and Other Stories

A stunning collection of stories from some of the leading short story and flash fiction writers worldwide. These are utterly diverting, absorbing and often breautiful tales full of emotional drama, surreal humour, broken memories and revenge from Kerry Andrew, Hannah Retallick, Sabrina Wolfe, Francis McCrickard and many more. Full author list below.

Praise from best selling author Christopher Brookmyre and Marisa Haetzman, judges of the Edinburgh Short Story Award 2024 on the winning story The Coffin Path by Kerry Andrew

• We loved not merely the language and imagery, but the rhythm of its flow... A haunting, tragic and yet optimistic piece of storytelling that conveyed a lifetime, but also a future.

Learn more about the Edinburgh Writing Awards at www.scottishartstrust.org/writing

The Outlier and other stories
CONTENTS
The Coffin Path by Kerry Andrew
What You Do When You Find Your Mother Dead by Hannah Retallick
Space enough for you by Sabrina Wolfe
In Time by Francis McCrickard
See The Light Play on the Water by Rob Schofield
The Good Storyteller by Terri Mullholland
Wing Mirrors by Frances McKendrick
The Outlier by Allison Brisbane
Takeout Chinese Near Me by Franky Seymour
For All Rats to Read by Nicola Caroli
Penguins and Empanadas by Catherine Varley
Snow Wine by Brian Sneeden
My Wife is an Autumn Leaf by Jay McKenzie
Fast Lane by Fiona Ritchie Walker
A Day for the Ducks by David McGrath
Back to life by Honor Somerset
The Rowan by Fiona Donn
All That Remains by Denarii Peters
Hen Night with Mermaids by Lindsay Gillespie
Language of the birds by MJ Burns
Gypsy by Kerry Anderson
Blue Juice by Abhainn Connolly
'Please Take Care of This Water Bear' by Joyce Meggett
Husband Marketplace.com: Male Order Today by Claire Marsh
Hilda & Albert by Chris d'Lacey
When you hang the family out to dry by Kik Lodge
I cancelled the comics by Jane Broughton
Lo Svedese by Hollie Newton
Breakwater by Gillian Webster
Miami by Tommer Peterson
All the Time in the World by Neil Gordon Shaw
A Winter to End All Winters by Faith Cobaine
The Alchemy of Mints by Sue Dewey
Poor Creatures by Miriam Needham
A Temporary Dilemma by Charles Maciejewski
Russian Bookshop, London, 1991 by Kathryn Aldrige-Morris
Worm Your Way Out of This by Roger Meachem
Banned from the supermarket by Susan Osborne
Cry of the Kittiwake by Mary D'Arcy
Tea Leaf by Jo Spencely
Mopping by Hannah Retallick
Worms by Elizabeth Hibbs
We live in a town ruled by iron ore by Cole Beauchamp
Apex Dilemma by Candia Marsland
The Tree Conservatory by Sherry Cassells
A Whippet Arrives by Susan Elsley
What do you think, Janey? by Frances Dalton
Blackout by Rosalind Thomas
Dark Horse by Kate Wildersley
Kiss Me Sober by Joan Murphy
Kissin' Season by Amy Macrae
Mirror by Ian Gouge
"Lovely day fir it" by Hannah Ward
The Man in the Park by Eva Sneddon
Notes from Spring by Lucy Donoghue
Walk, Don't Walk by Michael Callaghan