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Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 HB
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    y separately published work icon Flashing the Square : Microfiction and Prose Poems Linda Godfrey (editor), Bronwyn Mehan (editor), Strawberry Hills : Spineless Wonders , 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. 99
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    y separately published work icon The Butcherbird Stories A. S. Patrić , Yarraville : Transit Lounge , 2018 14399818 2018 selected work short story

    "Eleven stories. Each like a matchstick struck to illuminate the darkness. Evocations of place ranging from a Bangla jungle to the deep, blue Danube to a winter beach in Melbourne excite and seduce. But what truly draws the reader in are the unexpected landscapes of people’s lives, explored with rare sensitivity, grace and a fearless truthfulness.

    "A lonely St Kilda chef invites a beautiful busker to use his spare room. A father sings a lullaby to comfort his young daughter who has woken from a nightmare. A taxi driver picks up an old-world gentleman who is reluctant to disclose his destination. A young immigrant boy growing up in the western suburbs of Melbourne daydreams of infinite possibility.

    "Death, loneliness, passion and belief: Patrić takes on the big questions in life and writes about the small people of the world with stylistic verve and deep humanity.

    "This collection of stories reveals the author, best known for his award-winning novels, as a true master of the short story form." (Publishers blurb)

    Yarraville : Transit Lounge , 2018
    pg. 132-134
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