Fifty Egg Timer Short Stories
This is a collection of 50 mixed genre flash fiction stories. Each of them is between 600 and 1000 words in length. They vary from Romance to Science Fiction, and from the banal to serious in their scope. The idea of the title is to suggest that each story can be read in the time it takes for an...
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This is a collection of 50 mixed genre flash fiction stories. Each of them is between 600 and 1000 words in length. They vary from Romance to Science Fiction, and from the banal to serious in their scope. The idea of the title is to suggest that each story can be read in the time it takes for an egg to boil, or for the bus to arrive, or to help one get through the adverts on the telly. There is no expectation that all the stories will be everyone's cup of tea, or everyone's the right sort of egg. However, the author really hopes that everyone will connect with at least some of the spectrum.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781495904936 (1495904938)
ASIN: 1495904938
Publish date: 2014-02-27
Publisher: CreateSpace
Pages no: 164
Edition language: English
I won this novel as part of a giveaway through Booklikes, and I was really looking forward to it. I enjoy flash fiction and even write it myself, unfortunately I'd say that a good 2/3 of the stories did not read as actual "stories" to me. Richard Bunning is nice enough to label the stories so that w...
My Twist: Favorite story: “Pray for Mabinty’s Dream”. In a note at the end of the story the author mentions that he has not had first-hand knowledge on the subject. Well, dear Richard Bunning, I have. I have met and heard the stories of people travelling from the south of Africa, on foot, thousand...
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