Angela Cleland

I was born in 1977 in the frozen wastes of the Scottish Highlands, and after six years living in Glasgow, I'm just starting to thaw out. I started writing when I was very young, and met with early criticism when my mum read a story I had written about some creatures called 'Buggers'. She explained that I couldn't call them that because it was a 'bad word' whatever that means. I changed their name to 'Winkles' and have never looked back. I started sending work off last November, and have since been published in several UK magazines. I don't plan to stop until the world is mine...

	ANY RESEMBLANCE PURELY COINCIDENTAL I found this thing on the ground the other day. So I picked it up - it was round; it was a circle. >>>
	GOING THROUGH CUSTOMS I am stopped, quite politely, by a man who asks me to accompany him into another room.  I wouldn’t, only he looks official you see, and I don’t wish to make a fuss. >>>