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March 25, 2017 | Single Authors Short Stories

By Craig Cliff

A startlingly unique number of brief tales that used to be winner of the 2011 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for most sensible First Book.A son concerns he's changing into too excellent a replica of his father. The co-owner of a weight loss camp for teenagers unearths himself operating the black industry in chocolate bars. a guy begins melting and not anything can cease it, no longer even poetry. This fabulous number of tales via an exhilarating new expertise strikes from the intense and sensible to the funny and outlandish, each one tale copying a component from the former piece in one of those evolutionary chain. Amid pigeons with a flavor for cigarette ash, a rash of moa sightings, and the id challenge of an imaginary pal, the characters in those eighteen enjoyable tales search for how one can reconnect with humans and the realm round them, no matter if that suggests befriending a robber wielding an iguana.

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