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Water: A Collection of Stories
Water is a collection of stories by Valerie Fox, Pia Goddard, Joyce Hertzoff, Joanna Kania, Shaun Levin, Paweł Lucian Ługiewicz, SJ Lyon, Bob Merckel, Cynthia Saunders Reed, Zurina Saban, Ann Tudor, Rachel Wolcott, and Holly WoodwardFrom a garden in Cardiff to an island off the edge of Senegal, from the steppes of Russia to a park in Cadiz, these stories, some lighthearted, some heartbreaking, will take you on journeys to places imagined and real, places that reflect the richness of the everyday and the versatility of the literary imagination.
Honest and hopeful, the thirteen stories in this collection are intensely physical in the different ways that they carry us across the rocky terrain of adolescence, love, history and human connection. The themes reflect the wide spectrum of writers in Water, all of whom draw on a wealth of influences and lived geographies.
“Water enthrals the reader with entire fictional worlds that are touching and haunting. These stories expand the idea of what a
short story can do, and ripple with mystery and wonder.” Meg Pokrass, author of First Law of Holes
Honest and hopeful, the thirteen stories in this collection are intensely physical in the different ways that they carry us across the rocky terrain of adolescence, love, history and human connection. The themes reflect the wide spectrum of writers in Water, all of whom draw on a wealth of influences and lived geographies.
“Water enthrals the reader with entire fictional worlds that are touching and haunting. These stories expand the idea of what a
short story can do, and ripple with mystery and wonder.” Meg Pokrass, author of First Law of Holes
118 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 27, 2024
About the author
Shaun Levin
41 books33 followersShaun Levin is the author, most recently, of Snapshots of The Boy, an exploration of the unseen stories in photographs. His first book, Seven Sweet Things, published originally in the UK in 2003, has just be re-issued. His other books include A Year of Two Summers and Isaac Rosenberg's Journey to Arras: A Meditation.
He is currently completing the first in a trilogy of fictional biographies based on the lives of the artists Mark Gertler, Isaac Rosenberg, and David Bomberg. An extract from the Mark Gertler novel won the Moment-Karma Fiction Prize in 2006 and can be found on his website, shaunlevin.com.
Shaun has recently written and launched a series of illustrated creative writing maps of inspiration, Writing Maps.
He is also the founding editor of the international queer literary and arts journal, Chroma.
He is currently completing the first in a trilogy of fictional biographies based on the lives of the artists Mark Gertler, Isaac Rosenberg, and David Bomberg. An extract from the Mark Gertler novel won the Moment-Karma Fiction Prize in 2006 and can be found on his website, shaunlevin.com.
Shaun has recently written and launched a series of illustrated creative writing maps of inspiration, Writing Maps.
He is also the founding editor of the international queer literary and arts journal, Chroma.
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April 4, 2026
An interesting collection of very different stories, inspiring in different ways. They made me smile, they made me tight in the chest, they made me relax, they made me learn.
These stories are not so much stories in the traditional sense, they are still lives painted with words.
These stories are not so much stories in the traditional sense, they are still lives painted with words.
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