Novelist Jeffrey Archer, who
has sold about 300 million books worldwide, has set a writing competition to
encourage budding writers.
The winner will receive £250
in book tokens and the top ten best entries will be published in The Mail on Sunday.
Flash fiction writers, give
it a go!
Make every one of your 100 words
count.
100 words excluding title.
Send your entry to shortstory@mailonsunday.co.uk.
Deadline midnight 17
November.
Here’s Lord Archer’s 100-word
short story:
‘Unique’
Paris, March 14th,
1921. The collector relit his cigar, picked up the magnifying glass and studied
the triangular 1874 Cape of Good Hope.
‘I did warn you there were
two,’ said the dealer, ‘so yours is not unique.’
‘How much?’
‘The thousand francs.’
The collector wrote out a
cheque, before taking a puff on his cigar, but it was no longer alight. He
picked up a match, struck it, and set light to the stamp.
The dealer stared in
disbelief as the stamp went up in smoke.
The collector smiled. ‘You
were wrong, my friend,’ he said, ‘mine is unique.’
Good luck!
