This section of our community web site presents stories about the local area. The section has been created partly in association with Lancaster's Spotlight Club and we are grateful to both Ron Baker and Sarah Fiske for their time reading submissions and deciding on the contributions we will use. Thanks also to those who circulated our original e-mail about this project, including Ann Wilson.

We're looking for stories based in the local area, which reflect the community we live in. They can be contemporary, historical, funny or fantastic as long as they are based in the area. They might even be accounts of real-life events that have had a major impact on local life. For more details and information on format, click here

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SHORT FICTION

• Building Practices in North West England C2006 By Chas Ambler
When next-door's builders drill into your living room... You shouldn't laugh.....
Published 13 December 2006

• She Digs by Sam Barker
A chilling tale of a spade wielding maniac possessing the horrific ability to, er, dig really really fast.
Published 21 February 2005

• The Devil's Paradise by Jim Barton
A satirical, cruel but true, view of life in Lancaster in the 1980s... fond memories.
Published 17 May 2002

• R.A.D. Do Skerton Bus Stop by Mollie Baxter
If only arts funding was always this much fun!
Published 16 May 2002

• Tea with Oolin by Mollie Baxter
Alien encounters over a cup of Earl Grey, hot.
Published 2 September 2002

• The Miracle Worker by Charmian Coates
Shenangians in a Blackpool pub have unexpected results.
Published 16 May 2002

• Evacuees by Bill Jervis
A schoolboys' pitched battles on Padfields, Lancaster, in 1944 remembered.
Published 2 October 2002

• Snapshots by Bill Jervis
A chance encounter brings back memories of wartime Morecambe. Published 16 May 2002

• Talking to God at Glasson Dock by Simon Lester
Published 12 June 2002

• The Hispaniola by David Pogson
Published 17 July 2003
• In The Spotlight by David Pogson
When I am famous..

• Mum made me go on an Inter Religeous Pilgramage by Donald Reed
Published 7 February 2004

POETRY

• Poems by Carole Coates
What does a woman's long hair say to a man?
Updated 9 March 2005

• I walked in complete silence on hectic streets by Joe Dargue
Published 19 November 2005

• Who Cares? by Elaine Jackson
Published 9 November 2004

• Poems about Morecambe by Sue Paylor
Published 17 May 2002

• Poems by Donald Reed
Published 9 February 2004

• Poems by Alan Swift
Updated 7 February 2004

• The Punks that Stayed - A poem by Alan Swift
Published 11 July 2003

• Poems by Ann Wilson
Published 21 October 2002

• Acceptance Sonnet by Jo Walton
Published 12 September 2002
Actually, this is a bit of a cheat as John W. Campbell award winner Jo now lives in Canada and it would perhaps be difficult for her to perform at th Spotlight Club and this item has nothing to do with Lancaster... But nevertheless it seemed more than appropriate to include her work in this section of our site.