Time now to open the door on Day Four.
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Remember when you were a kid and you opened an Advent Calendar door every day? Well this year, courtesy of Dundonian writer Kirsty Eccles, you can have a daily dose of the McStorytellers Christmas McSerial. It’s called The Greatest (Advent) Stories Never Told. But be warned. It’s not all Happy Santa!
Time now to open the door on Day Four. Missed any of the earlier days? Nae bother. You can catch up with them by using your cursor to hover over Oor McSerials in the left-hand sidebar and then following the trail.
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Remember when you were a kid and you opened an Advent Calendar door every day? Well this year, courtesy of Dundonian writer Kirsty Eccles, you can have a daily dose of the McStorytellers Christmas McSerial. It’s called The Greatest (Advent) Stories Never Told. But be warned. It’s not all Happy Santa!
Time now to open the door on Day Three. Missed the first two days? Nae bother. You can catch up with them by using your cursor to hover over Oor McSerials in the left-hand sidebar and then following the trail. Remember when you were a kid and you opened an Advent Calendar door every day? Well this year, courtesy of Dundonian writer Kirsty Eccles, you can have a daily dose of the McStorytellers Christmas McSerial. It’s called The Greatest (Advent) Stories Never Told. But be warned. It’s not all Happy Santa!
Time now to open the door on Day Two. And here’s Day One if you missed it yesterday. Remember when you were a kid and you opened an Advent Calendar door every day? Well this year, courtesy of Dundonian writer Kirsty Eccles, you can have a daily dose of the McStorytellers Christmas McSerial. It’s called The Greatest (Advent) Stories Never Told. But be warned. It’s not all Happy Santa!
Time now to open the door on Day One. We’re delighted to announce that starting on Tuesday next week Dundonian writer Kirsty Eccles will join our McSerialists with a daily dose of door opening.
In the true spirit of Advent Calendars, each day will see a new episode which unlocks the door on her personal experience of Christmases. On writing the McSerial, Kirsty said, “It’s like all my Christmases coming at once… and that’s not necessarily a good thing.” The stories are poignant and shocking, and will certainly make you think about the true meaning of Christmas beyond the carols and the consumer capitalism. So join McStorytellers every day in December for The Greatest (Advent) Stories Never Told. But be prepared – some of these tales are not for the faint-hearted; nor are they for those who see Christmas through rose-tinted spectacles. You have been warned! Hot on the heels of yesterday’s announcement of our 4th birthday, we’re delighted today to publish our 500th short story.
Dealing with the Scottish Independence Referendum and its aftermath, the story couldn’t be more fitting. It has been penned by Dundee-born writer Kirsty Eccles. Not one to shy from controversy, Kirsty sets out in Hope Over Fear a very personal account of those recent events. It could be described as her eulogy to the Referendum; it might even be her lament to the demise of a nation. You may empathise with Kirsty’s views. Or you may strongly oppose them. Either way, as ever on McStorytellers, it’s the writing that matters. So please enjoy this story and all the 499 that have preceded it! Back in October last year, in a post entitled Home Truths, we introduced a very courageous Dundonian McStoryteller called Kirsty Eccles, we showcased her first published story and we told you about the publication of her debut ebook, The Price of Fame.
Today, we’re delighted to announce that all of Kirsty’s stories to date have been brought together in a revised edition of her ebook, which was launched yesterday at the Edinburgh eBook Festival. You can go to this page at the Festival to read all about the launch: Live Launch – Kirsty Eccles You can also download the special Festival Edition of the book FOR FREE from the Festival site. Or you can pay to download it from Amazon at these links: Amazon.co.uk Amazon.com Be warned, though. Being concerned with child abuse in all its ugly and cowardly guises, Kirsty’s stories don’t make for comfortable reading. They should be read by everyone nonetheless. Things are never what they seem. Especially not in our trio of brand new stories today.
Take a closer look at the friendly neighbour plying the kids with sweets in Trick or Treat, a wee slice of horror from Aberdeen-based Bill Robertson, the Flashmaster himself. Find out what a very nervous Selina is trying to slip past Customs in Nothing to Declare, the McStorytellers debut story of Glasgow-born writer Cal Wallace. And wonder whether that sighting of the Loch Ness Monster is real or imagined in Between Seeing and Believing by Dundonian Kirsty Eccles, who makes a very welcome return to McStorytellers. Enjoy. And stand by for some St Paddy’s Day laughs tomorrow. Our post today is dedicated to McStorytellers newcomer and emerging Scottish author, Dundee-born Kirsty Eccles, who has waited a long time to tell her stories. Hers are not comfortable stories, because they are about child sex abuse. They are fictional, but they are based on real events.
Kirsty makes her courageous writing debut here on McStorytellers with a harrowing tale called Girls and Boys Come Out to Play. It’s the story of a home truth that no-one wanted to hear – until now. Then there’s The Price of Fame, a longer and even braver story about grooming and child abuse on the stage. It’s just been published as an ebook on Amazon and can be downloaded at these links: Amazon.co.uk Amazon.com Do you really think Jimmy Savile and his cronies were the only ones? Read these stories and think again. |
McBlog AuthorBrendan Gisby is McStoryteller-in-Residence. He's the author of four novels, three biographies and several short story collections. The McStorytellers
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