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Flashing the Square : Microfiction and Prose Poems
Linda Godfrey
(editor),
Bronwyn Mehan
(editor),
Strawberry Hills
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Spineless Wonders
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2014
8324912
2014
selected work
prose
'Here are tales of service station hold-ups, random violence in elevators, shark attacks and road fatalities. Complete narratives, with well-drawn characters and plotlines all in 200 words or less. There are short pieces about supermarkets, computers and dogfights - all packed with emotional punch. Some describe quiet but no less significant moments: a child colouring in, a seagull stealing a chip. Some show us the magic of quotidian life - on trains, buses and in backyard gardens and nature strips. We gave them a single blank square of paper to fill. They flashed it with political satire, memorable lines, mordant observations, flights of fancy and heartbreaking descriptions.' (Publication summary)
Strawberry Hills : Spineless Wonders , 2014 pg. 73
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