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Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Radio Free Willesden - Podcast 6*

Kid in a Well by Willie Davis

I never work on days when there's a fire in town. It's a holiday as far as I'm concerned, and not just because it means the end of the world to some poor bastard, or family thereof...

"Kid in a Well" by Willie Davis, won the Willesden Short Story Prize 2007, judged by Zadie Smith. Willie Davis teaches English at the University of Maryland. This story in included in the anthology New Short Stories 1 (Pretend Genius, 2007).

The text is also online at the Guardian newspaper website, if you would like to read along and listen at the same time (follow the bouncing ball), here.

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