A short story anthology from ten talented emerging writers, the winning and runner-up entrants of the 2014 Cinnamon Press Short Story Prize. Ten stories including: Tracey Iceton, Lindsay Fisher, Tamsin Hopkins, Joanne Reardon, Jez Noond, Nicola Warwick, Jacqueline Haskell. Adnan Mahmutovic s story Your Camp: Survivor s Guilt deals with the aftermath of conflict: The voice here is taut, urgent. The story the echoes that will not leave even those who escape. Zoe Gilbert s Mawkin is a haunting and beautiful piece of prose: carefully judged, lucid, the gentle unfolding of events at once intimate, poignant and almost mythical. The winning and title piece, Patria by Kerry Hood, is in the words of the prize committee a poignant, acutely observed story is a small northern community that happens to have an airfield nearby, and is the place where bodies of dead servicemen are brought back home from conflicts abroad. The prose is excellent - the story very memorable.
