Winning stories from the First Solstice Shorts Festival competition together with a story from each of the competition judges. Sixteen short stories that chart the meaning of time, and explore what it can do to us, and for us. Broken hearts, lives lived on fastforward, missed chances, and catastrophic meetings on the road. Time stolen, time wasted, time captured and time lost. A warning from the past, a second that changes a life, a failed glimpse into the future and a study of funeral rites. Ready-made families, weekly liaisons, and an all-night radio show. From the First ever Solstice Shorts Festival originally read live in 2014 on the Greenwich Meridian, on the shortest day of the year, from sunrise to sunset. Stories from Judges Robert Shearman, Anita Sethi, Alison Moore, Imogen Robertson and winning writers Andrew Gepp, Cindy George, David Mathews, David Turnbull, Dizz Tate, Emma Timpany, Helen Morris, Jayne Pickering, Pippa Gladhill, Sarah Evans, Tannith Perry, William Davidson