Nicholas Royle 
The Best British Short Stories 2013 

The third in a series of annual anthologies, The Best British Short Stories 2013 reprints the cream of short fiction, by British writers, first published in 2012. These stories appeared in magazines from the Edinburgh Review to Granta, in anthologies from various publishers, and in authors’ own short story collections. They appeared online at 3:AM Magazine, Fleeting and elsewhere.
This new anthology includes stories by: Charles Boyle, Regi Claire, Laura Del-Rivo, Lesley Glaister, MJ Hyland, Jackie Kay, Nina Killham, Charles Lambert, Adam Lively, Anneliese Mackintosh, Adam Marek, Alison Moore, Alex Preston, Ross Raisin, David Rose, Ellis Sharp, Robert Shearman, Nikesh Shukla, James Wall and Guy Ware.

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Introduction

Alison Moore

The Smell of the Slaughterhouse

Ellis Sharp

The Writer

Adam Marek

The Stormchasers

Jackie Kay

Mrs Vadnie Marlene Sevlon

Ross Raisin

When You Grow into Yourself

Laura Del-Rivo

J Krissman in the Park

Alex Preston

The Swimmer in the Desert

Adam Lively

Voyage

Charles Lambert

Curtains

Anneliese Mackintosh

Doctors

Robert Shearman

Bedtime Stories For Yasmin

Nikesh Shukla

Canute

James Wall

Dancing to Nat King Cole

Nina Killham

My Wife the Hyena

Charles Boyle

Budapest

Lesley Glaister

Just Watch Me

Guy Ware

Hostage

MJ Hyland

Even Pretty Eyes Commit Crimes

Regi Claire

The Tasting

David Rose

Eleanor – The End Notes

Contributors’ Biographies

Acknowledgements

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David Rose was born in 1949 and spent his working life in the Post Office. His debut story was published in the Literary Review (1989), since when he has been widely published in magazines in the UK and Canada. He was joint owner and fiction editor of Main Street Journal. He is the author of two novels, Vault (2011) and Meridian (2015) and one collection, Posthumous Stories (2013). Recent stories have appeared in Gorse.