Tell Tale: Stories

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Simon Bainbridge, Henry Colthurst, Naresh Kumar, Christian Neffe, Alison Prince, Catherine Richards, Susan Watt, and Maria Teresa Burgoni.

This is the first set of short stories I have written since The Clifton Chronicles.

Once again, some of them are loosely based on incidents that I’ve picked up on my travels from Grantchester to Calcutta, from Christchurch to Cape Town. These tales are marked with an asterisk on the table of contents, while the remainder are the result of my imagination.

Jeffrey Archer

2017

Many years ago an editor from Reader’s Digest in New York invited me to write a 100-word story with a beginning, a middle, and an end. As if that wasn’t enough of a challenge, he insisted that it couldn’t be 99 words or 101.

Still not satisfied, he asked me to present the finished piece within twenty-four hours.

My first effort was 118 words, my second, 106, and my third, 98. I wonder if you can work out which two words I had to put back in.

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