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Pete Armstrong
       

Pete lives in a leafy suburb in Central Sweden. He spends his days in blue jeans, looking after children, reading, and writing stories.

He came second in the Sydney Hammond Memorial Competition, and has been a finalist with LISP and New Millenium. He won a micro competition for Globe Soup. His stories have appeared in numerous journals, including Wells Street, Strukturriss and Liars League. He has written a book of irreverent hiking anecdotes.

In spare time, Pete is a volunteer storyteller for the very young with allasbarnbarn.se, and plays a little Bach on the guitar.

He loves hiking in Swedish skog, trying not to bump into moose. Again. 

 
Published and Commended Work
2023
Breakfast - Sydney Hammond Memorial (2nd place)
Breakfast - New Millennium (finalist)
2022
Even the Darkest Night - Cinnamon Press
Night Walk - Wells St Journal
Chicken Rag - Globe Soup
Bullet - Strands
2021
Cocktails and Candy Canes - Liars League
And Then a Man Sat Beside Me on the Bench - Strands
Darkness and Discord - LISP (finalist)
A Whole Moment of Bliss - Segora
Even the Darkest Night will End - Strukturriss
Another Chronicle of a Death Foretold - Strands
Enquiry Desk - Art Ascent, Winter
Every Sweep has his Day - New York Midnight
Fate's Dice - Strands
2018 - 20
Shyness - Red Planet Magazine
Dynamism of Dogs on a Leash - Art Ascent, Animals
Beer and Girls and Eric Bristow - Wells St Journal
Food Chain - Globe Soup, Survival
The Ghost Tour - Strands
After the Concert - Art Ascent, Abstract
Skog - Globe Soup Micro, A Favourite Place (winner)
Pizza Parlour - Art Ascent, Sensuality
Beware the Strides of March - book of hiking anecdotes
Water - New Millennium (finalist)
Richard's T Shirt - Vernal Equinox
Time - New Millennium
My Neighbour - Vernal Equinox

Book Reviews
 

All the world's forests are different: Scottish pine on a frosty morning; English oak dappling the sunlight; giant Canadian firs shouldering their blanket of snow. Swedish skog is beautiful, each living tree stretching tall for its share of light, those fallen now rotting, returning their nutrients back to the common land. Everywhere is blanketed with green moss, painted onto every rock by trolls in the night. Birdsong fills the air. Tiny creatures rustle under ground cover, burying themselves in the hoofprints of bigger beasts. With each breath you smell the land of Midgård, protected by the gods.

Pete Armstrong

 

Pete wrote his first web page by hand in a text editor, before personal pages on the internet existed. Times have moved on, but Pete hasn't. This web page was written by hand in a text editor.
He uses material from the following, which are all great resources.
 
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