Longlisted: The Bedford Short Story Competition 2024 ‘Songs of Desire at the Library’

I was delighted to be long-listed for The Bedford Short Story Competition 2024 with my short story ‘Songs of Desire at the Library’. As a child, one of my favourite trips was to Allerton Library, in Liverpool, with its multitudes of enticing books, and soaring plate-glass 1960s Modernist-style windows. This story explores the memories of a man, returning by chance to the library of his childhood, and his unsettling recall of traumatic events from his past.