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Richard Mallinson's Fast Fiction: Volume Two

Richard Mallinson's Fast Fiction: Volume Two

Mallinson, Richard

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General Fiction

ISBN10: 1481781286
ISBN13: 9781481781282
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published: Jan 23 2013
Pages: 530
Weight: 1.69
Height: 1.18 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
At only a page each in length, Richard Mallinson's elegantly structured short stories are a pithy fast fiction for a modern multimedia age. A rapid succession of carefully worked observations, the stories read like a dynamic anthology of life's collisions and interactions, its projected plans and unexpected rotations. There is a great joy in the subverted (the interviewer becomes the interviewee; the private detective becomes the conspirator) as well as an interest in the open-ended. Possibility abounds, for these are always tales of the present; the past is unclear and the future unwritten. Adhering to the strict one-page format, the writing is marvelously precise: it is highly disciplined, but infinitely rich, conjuring the most unique and sharply observed characters with remarkably few words. If indeed we read fiction . . . in order to meet individuals as the character Tolson declares in Mallinson's Tolson's Creed, then in this anthology we are introduced to a plethora of distinct personalities, rendered all the more compelling by their relentless unpredictability.

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