Strange love affairs Strange Love Affairs is the collection of the short listed stories of the 7th eyelands? international short story contest. Every year the contest, the only one short story contest based in Greece, gives the opportunity to the first prize winner to win a week holiday at the island of Crete and to all the short listed writers see their stories published in a book. This year the book is ''Strange love affairs'' with stories from writers of ten different countries, from Europe, USA and Australia