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The latest Fiction Desk anthology took some time to arrive, but it was worth the wait. Typically, the featured works are strong on narrative - they are all, first and foremost, "good stories" which shy away from experimentalism for its own sake. That is not to say that they are not original. Take for instance the first, second and third-placed submissions in the Fiction Desk's 2015 "Ghost Story Competition", each of which is included in the present anthology. None of them is your typical spooky
Full review at Casual Debris.The introduction to the tenth Fiction Desk anthology links the title thematically to the individual stories, as well as politically with the recent Brexit phenomena, and more than most TFD issues, aside from the Ghost Story volumes, the theme of this one is appropriate to the individual stories.The top three stories of the 2015 ghost stories competition are included here. Though I was a little bummed that not all the finalists were printed in the volume as one of my