Monday 15th June, 2009 - ISSUE 49 has now been posted to all subscribers. See below for writers included in this issue.

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Issue 49 contains:

EDITORIAL by JIM PALMER & MIKE SOMERS
ECHOES by R. J. DENT
IT’S ME by WAYNE DEAN-RICHARDS
DORA’S ROSES by GRETA JORDAN
READER’S LETTERS by THE PUBLIC
CATALOGUES OF DELIGHT by STEVE DAWSON
A VISIT: AND DUNDLEDEEN’S GREAT FEAR by MAUREEN WELDON
PICKING by ADAM L. PARRY
SUPERSTAR by JOYCE WALKER
GAY JOE by BRIAN DARWENT
THE PERFECT PEARL by WILLIAM WOOD
THE INTERCEPTION by VINCENT LYNCH
ATTACK OF THE GHILLIE MONSTER by ROBERT GEBRUERS
FAMILIAR STRANGER by SINDIJA PLAVENIECE

Writer’s Muse presents the 2008 Writing Competition special issue - The Good The Fab and The Cuddly.

Writers featured are: Prize winners:
Shirley Golden - Dead Ringer
Mark Wagstaff - Memorial
Greta Jordan - “No Mummy”

Also:
Helen Crossley - Life Begins at Forty
R. J. Dent -The Purple Butterfly
Shirley Pettit - Wine Snob
Kevin Brookes - The Knife
Shirley Golden - Theory of My Mind
Andrew Beardmore - Them Mozzies
Adrian Kirsten - The Reunion
William Wood - How and When
Shirley Golden - Into The West
Bryn Fortey - Sunken Cities
Alfred Kessler - The Sister’s Touch
Greta Jordan - The Best and Last Blow
Away Sponge Cake



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