OK, it‚s time for an admission. Talk to me about the power of words and I can rabbit on happily, but talk to me about technical things and I run into problems. That‚s why I leave the clever stuff to the likes of my colleagues who built, and manage, this site.

Why am I telling you this? Well, I suspect there may be some of you out there who are little daunted by entering our competition on-line. So, we have decided that we will take postal stories as well.

Simply send them direct to my home address, at 18 Milbank Court, Darlington, Co Durham, England, DL3 9PF, or to the Certys office at Livingstone House, 29 High Northgate, Darlington, Co Durham, England DL1 1UQ, marked Global Short Story Competition, and containing a £5 entry fee, with cheques made out to Certys Limited.

Oh, and because this is our first competition,we are setting a closing date of December 31 to give everyone time to get their stories in.

We have already had some entries and a quick glance tells us that our judge, the North-East writer Fiona Cooper, is going to have her work cut out when it comes to picking a winner. I know she is looking forward to reading your creations.

So please do keep sending your stories in: if nothing else, it means I won‚t have to worry about finding the on switch on the kettle!

John Dean

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