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Louise Harnby’s fiction writing


Short stories and flash fiction

​Fancy a little crime fiction, speculative fiction, science fiction or horror? Help yourself to this free collection of short stories. No strings – just click to read.
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Welcome to a world of neural integration, where libraries house crooks, not books, and authitects and tellers feed fiction direct into readers' minds. Quantum computing has changed the game, and the Mindle is the ereader of choice.
Shortlisted for 2018 Future Fiction competition, hosted by The Bookseller/FutureBook and The Pigeonhole. ​
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​​A woman is missing. The clock's ticking but the police can't even find the door she was dragged through, never mind the victim.
Shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association's Margery Allingham Short Story Competition, 2019.​
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Meet the cobbler. His clients' needs are precise, his creations bespoke. For one customer, there's a pair of shoes for every day of the week. The question is, what will she do with them?
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Controlling the borders is top of the agenda. In the not-so-distant future, the stakes are higher than ever ... and more complex. Welcome to the manifold.
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Picks and Gar are a super fun marketing duo committed to making business promotion less boring. It's tough staying at the top, though, and these Young Turks will do anything to get attention.
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He's special. Can sense things. That's what the cat lady says. And she's not wrong.
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Trouble's around the corner, and this woman can smell it.
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The local hunt's out in force and shooting out of season. But not for long. Ian's dead set on bringing them down .... with a drone, a tablet and a Twitter account. But the local woods are hiding a secret more foul than fowl.
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A short tale of artisan gin distillation gone mad.
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An innocent drive into the city for shoes, vinyl and vape juice. Just a little shopping ... or so it seems.
Shortlisted for Noirwich Crime Writing Festival's flash-fiction competition, 2018.​
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Jim's tics have been with him for as long as he can remember. And they tell him there's trouble ahead.
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Someone's stealing red diesel and Sergeant Rachel Sharp's rural crime stats are through the roof. But will a random pull-over reveal a more sinister theft?
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Zeppelin: Shorts and Flashes
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