Friday, 21 August 2026

"Modern fog" by Chris Emery (Arc, 2024)

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Poems from Ambit, Bad Lilies, London Magazine, PN Review, etc. Here's the start and end of "The Path" - All the no-shows...
Thursday, 20 August 2026

"Flash fiction festival eight" by Jude Higgins & Diane Simmons (eds) (Adhoc fiction, 2025)

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An anthology of pieces mostly by people who attended the 2025 Flash Fiction Festival in Bristol. Favourites include "Petunias" (Ka...
Wednesday, 19 August 2026

"The patron saint of lost souls" by Menna van Praag

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An audio book set in Cambridge, England. Jude, 46, works in Gatsby's - not a trinket/antique shop, but a place where people discover th...
Tuesday, 18 August 2026

"City swimmers & other stories" by Steve Clark (Black note press, 2024)

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These stories seem previously unpublished. He's had fiction published in "The Paris Review" and poetry published in various ma...
Monday, 17 August 2026

"Gravity" by Erica Wagner (Granta, 1997)

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Stories from Critical Quarterly, BBC R4, etc. Gravity - A male astronomer (his PoV) in a remote observatory receives a fellow astronome...
Sunday, 16 August 2026

"The Seven doors" by Agnes Ravatn

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An audio book. Nina, a Literature prof, and Matts (doctor) live in Bergen, Norway. Their house is about to be knocked down - compulsory pur...
Saturday, 15 August 2026

"Maps on the ceiling" by Philip Ward (Oleander press, 1970)

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It's a pamphlet of poems, many of them short - often there are 2 poems per page. There's often end-rhyme - regular and irregular. I ...