Litrefs Reviews
Wednesday 24 April 2024
"Scratching the sands" (National Flash Fiction Day, 2023)
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An anthology of Flash with the shortlist of Microfiction at the end. The theme was Time. Favourites include "1969" and especially...
Saturday 20 April 2024
"Pond" by Claire-Louise Bennett (Fitzcarraldo, 2023)
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It was originally published in 2015 by Stinging Fly. Stories from The White Review, Stinging Fly, Harper's Magazine and New Yorker. The ...
Wednesday 17 April 2024
"A twist of the knife" by Peter Jones
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An audio book of about 30 short stories - some just 2 sentences. Many are plot-driven, the plot too easy to guess. Sometimes I guessed an en...
Saturday 13 April 2024
"The written poem" by Rosemary Huisman (Cassell, 1998)
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On the back cover is " How do we recognise 'a poem' (including apparent contraventions, such as the 'prose poem')? Once...
Wednesday 10 April 2024
"with one eye on the cows"
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Bath Flash Fiction Volume Four - 137 stories chosen from 3,123 entered for their 2019 competitions. Sharon Teller's "Her safe word ...
Saturday 6 April 2024
"Frieze" by Olga Dermott-Bond (Nine Arches Press, 2023)
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Poems from "Barren Magazine", "Ink, Sweat and Tears", "Magma", etc. The poems suit my tastes - discontinuous,...
Wednesday 3 April 2024
"Grey area" by Will Self (Penguin, 1993)
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Short stories. Neuro-diverse before the term was common. "Between the conceits" - there are 8 ordinary-seeming people who betw...
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