“10 magical modern short stories from a master of language” – The Kindle Book ReviewSTORM DAMAGE is a collection of ten stories by John A. A. Logan, author of THE SURVIVAL OF THOMAS FORD (winner of a Special Award in the eFestival of Words Best of the Independent eBooks Awards 2012)
Length: 200 pages/60000 words
UNICORN ONE – Mission Control in Edinburgh has made a strange choice of astronaut for Scotland’s first ever Independent Space Program
LATE TESTING – Michael survived the trenches of World War One France, but can he survive the English village he returns home to?
NAPOLEON’S CHILD – Has old Frank been alone for too long, or did a young boy really appear from the desert mysteriously one night?
AT THE EDGE OF THE KNOWN WORLD – In a very bizarre circus, a Big Top performance goes horribly wrong
THE MAGENTA TAPESTRY – Calliasta may have to sell the old house to Russian mafiosi, but is it true that the family gardener, Ernest, owns the grounds?
THE AIRMAN – A ghost story about a World War Two bombing raid over Dresden which somehow ends up in modern India
THE POND – An elderly man tries to recreate a lost love but is Nature on his side?
THE ORANGE PIG – A meeting between a pig and a wolf on a moonlit hillside leads to a night of revelations for the pig
STORM DAMAGE – How hard can it really be to make an insurance claim?
SOMETIMES ALL THE WORLD COMES DOWN* – A young man gets his teeth into something at a party
*SOMETIMES ALL THE WORLD COMES DOWN was originally published by PICADOR in NEW WRITING 13 (edited by Ali Smith and Toby Litt)
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