Pete Armstrong
       

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

He came second in the Sydney Hammond Memorial Competition, and was a finalist for LISP, and twice for New Millenium. He won a micro competition for Globe Soup. His stories have appeared in numerous journals, including Wells Street, Strukturriss and Liars League.

In spare time he reads lots of contemporary fiction and plays a little Bach on the guitar. He has written a book of irreverent hiking anecdotes.

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

 
Published and Commended Work
Breakfast - Sydney Hammond Memorial, 2nd place, autumn 2023
Even the Darkest Night - Cinnamon Press, winter 2022
Night Walk - Wells St Journal, autumn 2022
Chicken Rag - Globe Soup, autumn 2022
Bullet - Strands, spring 2022.
Cocktails and Candy Canes - Liars League, 2021.
And Then a Man Sat Beside Me on the Bench - Strands, 2021.
Darkness and Discord - LISP, finalist, 2021
A Whole Moment of Bliss - Segora, 2021.
Even the Darkest Night will End - Strukturriss, 2021.
Another Chronicle of a Death Foretold - Strands, 2021
Enquiry Desk - Art Ascent, Winter, 2021
Every Sweep has his Day - New York Midnight, 2021
Fate's Dice - Strands, 2021
Shyness - Red Planet Magazine, 2020
Dynamism of Dogs on a Leash - Art Ascent, Animals, 2020
Beer and Girls and Eric Bristow - Wells St Journal, 2020
Food Chain - Globe Soup, Survival, 2020
The Ghost Tour - Strands, 2020
After the Concert - Art Ascent, Abstract, 2020
Skog - Globe Soup Micro, A Favourite Place, winner, 2020
Pizza Parlour - Art Ascent, Sensuality, 2020
Beware the Strides of March book of hiking anecdotes, 2020
Water - New Millennium, finalist, 2020
Richard's T Shirt, - Vernal Equinox 2019
Time - New Millennium 2018
My Neighbour - Vernal Equinox 2018

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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