Liars' League

Call for submissions from .Cent magazine

.Cent magazine strives to support the written word. Last issue we saw a number of new writers' work published in the magazine by introducing each of our chapters with a piece of creative writing. If you would like to be part of the next issue, please find the details below.

Our next edition is titled the 'Spaces In Between' issue, guest-edited by greyworld. For more information on this edition please see the website. Our chapter titles for creative writing submissions are as follows:

• Inside Out, Back to Front, Upside Down and On the Spot

• In Rehearsal

• Between Sleeping and Waking

• Cinch and Ease Unexpected Faces, Unusual Places

• Trouble, Mischief, Rebellion

The brief is as follows:

• A strict maximum word count of 350.

• First draft deadline Monday 15th December.

• We will be seeking a mixture of forms: prose/ poetry/ script.

• You may submit work for as many titles as you wish.

• Submissions and printed work are on an unpaid basis.

• You may feel free to interpret the title however you wish, although please - bear in mind that we will chose the piece that best encapsulates and introduces the chapter theme.

• .Cent reserves the right to make the final decision.

The best submission for each chapter title will be printed in the issue. Submissions which do not make the magazine may still be published on our website, which is now up ( www.greyworld.org although still in transition). Please include the credit you wish to be published should your work be selected. We would like to support your work so feel free to include website details or alternative projects that are suitable to print. Should your work be published we will gladly send you a hard copy, please make sure you include your name, address and phone number.

If your work is not selected for this issue, we can gladly keep you on file for creative writing submissions to future issues. Please let me know if this is of interest to you. We look forward to receiving your work.

Please feel free to contact Natalie Evans-Harding at natalie@centmagazine.co.uk with any questions you may have.

Call for submissions to .Cent magazine

.Cent magazine strives to support the written word. Last issue we saw a number of new writers' work published in the magazine by introducing each of our chapters with a piece of creative writing. If you would like to be part of the next issue, please find the details below.

Our next edition is titled the 'Spaces In Between' issue, guest-edited by greyworld. For more information on this edition please see the website. Our chapter titles for creative writing submissions are as follows:

• Inside Out, Back to Front, Upside Down and On the Spot

• In Rehearsal

• Between Sleeping and Waking

• Cinch and Ease Unexpected Faces, Unusual Places

• Trouble, Mischief, Rebellion

The brief is as follows:

• A strict maximum word count of 350.

• First draft deadline Monday 15th December.

• We will be seeking a mixture of forms: prose/ poetry/ script.

• You may submit work for as many titles as you wish.

• Submissions and printed work are on an unpaid basis.

• You may feel free to interpret the title however you wish, although please - bear in mind that we will chose the piece that best encapsulates and introduces the chapter theme.

• .Cent reserves the right to make the final decision.

The best submission for each chapter title will be printed in the issue. Submissions which do not make the magazine may still be published on our website, which is now up (

www.greyworld.org

although still in transition). Please include the credit you wish to be published should your work be selected. We would like to support your work so feel free to include website details or alternative projects that are suitable to print. Should your work be published we will gladly send you a hard copy, please make sure you include your name, address and phone number.

If your work is not selected for this issue, we can gladly keep you on file for creative writing submissions to future issues. Please let me know if this is of interest to you. We look forward to receiving your work.

Please feel free to contact Natalie Evans-Harding at natalie@centmagazine.co.uk with any questions you may have.

A Short Story on the Theme of War and Peace by Edward Sandling

Read by Tom Mallaburn

A short story on the theme of War and Peace would naturally feature two lovers. A would love B more than B loved A. They would quarrel, and they would have sex. There would be no room for small gestures, for sniping, for passive-aggression. Only the great emotions would be good enough for A and B. Fury, lust, and wracking despair.

Human Resources by Emma Henderson

Read by Patsy Prince

When I get into work (at 9.05, earning a glare from Geraldine who sits opposite), the photo's already peeking coyly from under my keyboard. Lee’s ripped it out of the Business Beacon newsletter and circled  someone's head so many times that she’s peering out from a halo of green biro. Underneath, in block capitals, he’s written: IT’S HER.

Sal and Me, and Big D’s War by Brindley Hallam Dennis

Read by Tom Sykes

The day the war broke out I was washin’ carrots. I was working next to Sal. She was wearin’ a read-my-tits T-shirt that said, ‘If you can read this, you’re almost close enough.’ That’s not a good position to be in when hostilities are imminent. I was standin’ at the racks with my scrubbin’ brush. That’s what we did at the London Carrot Washery. We washed carrots.

Home Guard by Taylor Brown

Read by Ben Farrow

He doesn’t look so tough for a hero, if that’s what he is.  He’s way short first of all.  Like five foot nothing.  Looks like he’s still in high school, though he’s a couple years older than me, and I’m about to be a sophomore.  At State.  Before now, last I’d heard of him was when he did Mallory Dawson in the back seat of his black Mustang convertible.  We were in junior high, Mallory and me both.  She was my sweetheart then, though she didn’t know it.  She was starry-eyed for older guys, guys like David Doogan laying in wait to steal her virginity.  Son of a bitch.  He became my arch-nemesis then, though he didn’t know it. 

House of Cards by Lucinda Pang

Read by Annalie Wilson

Years ago I lived with my then girlfriend, Beth, in an old house on Hunter Street which had been divided into eight squalid chambers, four upstairs, two downstairs, one in back, and one in the basement.  I won’t pretend that times were good, or that the rent was reasonable—they weren’t—but the people I met there still hang around in my memory like old coats in a hall cupboard.  You remember them every so often when you are looking for a scarf or a vacuum cleaner.

Bonello was one of those people. 

Two Percent by Chris Fyles

Read by Max Berendt

House clearance is never an easy task, Best Beloved. I mean clearing houses of their armed occupants by force, going door-to-door, window-to-window, street-to-street. It’s the most dangerous, draining, bloody business, and you’ll find few soldiers who like it. Even fewer commanders, and no politicians: because if there’s one thing guaranteed to ratchet up the casualty rate, it’s urban warfare. All the fancy tactics and manoeuvres go out of the window, if you’ll pardon the pun, O Best Beloved. You’re left with nothing more than a slugging match.