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Rare Stories
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General FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9781914199387
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Mar 22 2023
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.27 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Inspired by words marked as rare in the Oxford English Dictionary, this A-Z showcases the imaginative, characterful, and inventive possibilities of short fiction.
From a woman trapped in her cul-de-sac to a pilot with a pig gristle nose, the collection travels through small-town Northern Ireland and feuding museums in Malta, encounters a girl who has befriended a taxidermied deer, a man who sells fake chameleons, and an expectant father who loses himself in jazz music. Often weird and wonderful, the thousand-word stories in this collection take on the rare words which sparked them from a slant and, in doing so, produce a series of entertaining and darkly-humorous snapshots of contemporary life.
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