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by Paul Curd (Author)
'Story Box' is a collection of short stories about people struggling to get by in a world where the line between right and wrong is no longer certain. With a cast list ranging from fatherless children to lonely old ladies, from teenage poisoners to reformed hit-men, many of the stories in this book have been previously published in magazines in the UK or Scandinavia. Sometimes the morality of the men and women depicted here is opaque, to say the least, but even the wrongdoers are themselves the victims of circumstance. As are we all.
Author Biography
Paul Curd was born in London in 1955. He has worked in the civil service, the NHS and the voluntary sector but is currently self-employed. He started writing short stories in 2004 while studying for a certificate in creative writing at the University of Kent. His first published story appeared in Writers' Forum magazine in 2005. He broke into the woman's magazine market with his first crime-related Woman's Weekly story in 2006 and was shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association Debut Dagger Award the same year. He has an MA in creative prose fiction from Canterbury Christ Church University and is currently working on two novels.
