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Des Truscott - writer, teacher and theatre practitioner - lives and works in the UK. Aims always to engage the full potency of the audience/reader/student’s imagination. Recent fiction has been long-listed for the Nottingham Writers Short Story competition 2016 and the Yeovil Literary Prize, novel section, 2017 and published by Black Heart Magazine (USA) in October 2017. Des worked for eight years in the manufacturing, engineering, construction and rail industries before returning to full-time education. Retired from a Senior Lecturer post in Performance at Middlesex University to devote his creative energies to full-time writing. Is currently collaborating with a professional editor on The Fetch, a haunting, supernatural, coming of age novel set within the clothing industry of the 1970s.