• Murder on TV's reality showCelebrity House.
• A painter sells his soul in exchange for artistic perfection.
• A dying man yearns for his lost love.
• A girl wanders isolated streets, chased by an unnamed monster.
• An epicure's hunt for unusual food takes her where she least expects it.
• Game shows replace General Elections to decide who runs the country.
• A boy becomes a superhero and finds it's not all it's cracked up to be.
• A daughter looking after her aging parent finds their roles are reversed.
• Is Rose's new boyfriend a serial killer? Surely not Can't be.
• Violet, the Kray Twins' mother, meets Judy Garland.
• An office worker's mystical experience in an art gallery.
• Love, loss and sacrifice in a north Arctic community.

All this and more inTalking Without Being Interrupted, the third anthology by Northants Writers' Ink. Packed with stories, poems and a comedy script, it more than lives up to the high standard now expected of this Northamptonshire writers' group.