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'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)
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Strawberry Hills,
Inner Sydney,
Sydney,
New South Wales,:Spineless Wonders
, 2014 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Hold-up Susan, single work short story (p. 21)
- Turing Test Study Guide, single work prose (p. 23)
- Tram 96 to St Kilda, single work prose (p. 25)
- No, single work prose (p. 27)
- City Circle, single work prose (p. 29)
- Movements, single work prose (p. 31)
- White Out, single work prose (p. 33)
- Given, single work prose (p. 35)
- Taken Michelle Wright, single work prose (p. 37)
- Fritz Madeleine Baud, single work prose (p. 39)
- One Blue Eye, single work prose (p. 41)
- Forest, single work prose (p. 43)
- The Last Hare, single work prose (p. 45)
- Seagull, single work prose (p. 47)
- Swan Season, single work prose (p. 49)
- Listen, single work prose (p. 51)
- Proposal, single work prose (p. 53)
- My Past Is Shopping at Woolworths, single work prose (p. 55)
- Marriage of Convenience, single work prose (p. 57)
- I Do, single work prose (p. 59)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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The Problem of Reading : B. J. Muirhead Reviews ‘Flashing the Square’ & ‘Writing to the Edge’
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , October 2014 – March no. 13 2015;
— Review of Flashing the Square : Microfiction and Prose Poems 2014 selected work prose ; Writing to the Edge : Prose Poems and Microfiction 2014 anthology poetry short story
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The Problem of Reading : B. J. Muirhead Reviews ‘Flashing the Square’ & ‘Writing to the Edge’
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , October 2014 – March no. 13 2015;
— Review of Flashing the Square : Microfiction and Prose Poems 2014 selected work prose ; Writing to the Edge : Prose Poems and Microfiction 2014 anthology poetry short story
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