Rental Hearts, Lion Lovers and Girlfriends in the Deep Freezer: Magical Realism and the Contemporary Short Story in the UK
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The last decade has seen a renais...
Interview by Alex Reece Abbott
Splonk is a new twice-yearly flash e-zine based in Ireland, featuring flashes of up to 500 words, splancfhicsean (Irish langua...
In the Penguin compilation volume, The Short Novels of John Steinbeck (2009 ), the six novels chosen – the word novelette is used to describe one of them– half ...
It could be that one of the greatest obstacles to overcome when reading Kipling’s short stories for the first time is what you have already read about the autho...
How To Write Winning Flash Fiction
What makes winning flash fiction? There’s no single answer – and nor should there be – but I’ve been wondering about it ev...
I’m making a pasta dish, something I did when I was a mother of a living child. It’s the first time I’ve cooked pasta since my daughter died four years ago, age...
Every Saturday morning the ones living in containers flocked out from their metallic rectangular homes to see what the service van had brought for them. The van...
Review by Janet H Swinney
Paperback: 226 pages
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press (June 2017)
Price: £9.99
ISBN-10: 978-1845233341
Sometimes you have to read...
