View from an Escalator and 100 Papers

View from an Escalator

View from an Escalator offers the reader a look at the shifting nature of the poet's world, the advances of motherhood both tentative and triumphant, the movements of love and the vicissitudes of music.

This collection of poetry is the author's second publication this year. It was launched at the Live Poets Society in Durban in July 2007. This manuscript received a Community Publishing Project Grant from the Centre for the Book under the auspices of the National Library of South Africa.

ISBN 13: 9780981406831

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100 Papers

As haiku is to poetry, so flash fiction is to the short story: condensed, tight, tiny. Flash fiction has been fostered by internet technology, where a computer screen enables one to read some 400 words at a time without scrolling down or clicking away. Yet the oldest examples of the form include Aesop's fables, Ovid's Metamorphoses and scriptural parables.

Modern short-short stories come by a range of names: microfiction, vignette, postcard fiction, palm-of-the-hand stories and smoke-long fiction. When the cigarette is smoked, the story is done; with the camera's flash, the image is snatched. Every word counts, operating at a number of levels. The magic of flash fiction lies its brevity and essence and succeeds best when the reader recognises that which is implied and completes the text.

The miniatures found in 100 Papers are gleaned from the experiences of being a police officer and a psychic, an orchestral bassoonist and a weekend mother. Parrots and gossips, eccentrics and vinegary teens people the stories in this collection.rnrnISBN 13: 9780981406817
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