Liars' League

Comma Coma by Will Adam

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Read by Adam Diggle

The last movie I saw, prior to an air conditioner falling on my head, was Good Will Hunting. It’s the first thing I think about as I wake from my coma. How ‘bout them apples?

 

Fool's Leap by Alan Graham

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Read by David Mildon 

LIGHTS - CAMERA - AND…

“I’m sorry, am I really expected to jump that?”

CUT!

“I mean, I don’t want to be awkward but the gap between these buildings is really rather large.”

The Director gets out of his chair and glares at me angrily from the top of the opposite building. Although he doesn’t need it to be heard, he yells back at me using his megaphone.

 

Problem Child by Phil Berry

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Read by Tony Bell

I was the one of the lucky ones. In-Time were recruiting, my licence was clean, my knowledge of national highways was impeccable. As I charged through the rain and pushed my van to the limit of the law, I considered my fortune. To carry life, or the chance for life, was a privilege. Livers, kidneys – a heart once. A team of surgeons awaited my arrival, and a dying person relied on my concentration.

 

Miscellaneous, Spooky, Weird by Liam Hogan

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Read by Carrie Cohen 

“Emergency. Which service?”

This is what you’ll hear, if you are unfortunate enough to need to call 999. There are, of course, many more than three options.

The AA – the car breakdown company, not Alcoholics Anonymous – once claimed it was the Nation’s Fourth Emergency Service. But that was just self-serving aggrandising claptrap.

 

His Shane McKenna Voice by Tom Ryan

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Read by Silas Hawkins

I'm getting old.

First time it really hit me, I was chasing down a long ball in the regular Friday night seven-a-side with a load of the lads from work. I had myself a ten-yard start on the bearded one from IT – no youngster himself – and he still got there in plenty of time to have a good think about how to pick out the runner in the box, and that was one-nil.

There was nothing at all I could do about it, and it hurt. I mean I knew I'd lost a yard or two, but ten? When did that happen? If there's one thing I don't want to be, it's a liability.

 

Fault Lines by Jennifer Steil

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Read by Louisa Gummer

She has no memory of the accident itself. She remembers flicking her left turn signal and glancing in her rearview mirror, and then nothing until she found herself in a stopped car, sideways at the edge of the road to Lake Titicaca. I must get my daughter out, she thought.

 

OUR NEXT EVENT: Accident & Emergency, Tuesday 11th August

NEE-NAW ... NEE-NAW ... No need to panic! That's just the ambulance delivering emergency supplies of stories to The Phoenix, Cavendish Square, in time for our August event. 

If you're suffering from boredom, restlessness, post-holiday blues or simply an insatiable craving for entertainment, stand by for a transfusion of fresh fiction, featuring organ couriers, school bullies, Hollywood stunts, Government-sponsored witches, car crashes, and a man waking from an eight-year coma. 

WINNING STORIES FOR ACCIDENT & EMERGENCY
Fault Lines by Jennifer Steil *NEW AUTHOR* read by Louisa Gummer
Comma Coma by Will Adam *NEW AUTHOR* read by Adam Diggle
Problem Child by Phil Berry, read by Tony Bell
Fool's Leap by Alan Graham, read by David Mildon
His Shane McKenna Voice by Tom Ryan, read by Silas Hawkins
Miscellaneous, Spooky, Weird by Liam Hogan, read by Carrie Cohen

As always, doors open at 7pm and your appointment begins at 7.30. Drinks and food of a distinctly non-NHS quality will be available at the bar, and the infamous interval quiz will feature fabulous free books to be won! Entrance is £5 on the door (cash only) and tables for 4 or more can be reserved by calling 07808 939535.

The venue is downstairs at:
The Phoenix
37 Cavendish Square 
London 
W1G 0PP

(The Phoenix is 5 minutes' walk from Oxford Circus tube station, which is on the Victoria, Bakerloo and Central lines)
Map here