Sweet Things: Flashes in The Dark by Bruce Meyer
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Overview: A major collection of "flash fiction" by one of Canada’s most accomplished and renowned writers. The collection includes the prestigious Edinburgh Award for Flash Fiction 2022 story How to Draw a Frog and other award winning gems of the author’s work.His flash fiction has been published in many countries, including Ireland, the UK, the US, Hong Kong, India, Nigeria.Bruce Meyer is the author of over sixty books or poetry, short fiction, flash fiction and literary non-fiction. He is also well-known as the voice behind various CBC radio’s literature broadcasts The Great Books, A Novel Idea, Great Poetry, Poetry is Life and Vice Versa. He has taught at various universities, including University of Toronto, McMaster University, University of Windsor, Laurentian University, Notre Dame, Skidmore College, University of Southern Mississippi, University of Texas in Austin.. His many awards include being named Poet Laureate of the City of Barrie where he now resides with his family.Bruce Meyer’s works have received very high international praise from numerous sources. The writer himself, perhaps, best explains his work:"The challenge is for the writer to drill down into a fragment of the commonplace and make it into something more than anyone could have foreseen with the source. Isn’t that what resides at the core of invention?""Stories are easy to begin but the real work resides in finishing them..""A successful piece of writing goes "Ping" and that is when all the parts come together and the memory of the piece doesn’t leave the mind."
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction / Classics
Contents:
Wheel
The Langlois Bridge (longlisted Strand International Fiction Contest)
Cuba (Retreat West Fiction Prize)
The Riverside
The Paulsens
Vikings
Nessun Dorma
The Other Side of the World
Guide
Portrait
Rare Flower (Fiction North)
Princess and Rick
How to Draw a Frog (Editors’ Prize, Edinburgh Flash Fiction Prize)
Every Day
Afternoon (Heartwood Literary Magazine)
The Toll [renamed The Shadow]
Day of the Dead
Eleanor
A Short Film About Seagulls (shortlisted Fish Flash Fiction Prize)
Worldly Goods (The Song Between Our Stars)
The Brothers
Toothbrush (Hash Journal)
Auntie
Rust
The Trailer (London Independent Short Story Prize finalist)
Arums (Lothlarien Review)
Sweet Things
Aces
The Boiling Point (A Chronicle of Magpies)
The Old Man (Fictive Dream)
Happy (Finding the Birds)
The Beach
Breed (Nunum)
Harpy
Finlandia
Archivist (shortlisted Strand International FF contest)
St. John’s Dance
The Tapestry
Chupacabra
Sleep Walking
Sentry
It’s a Girl!
Roar
The Laurel
Silences
Suntrap
Gran’s Hats (Unlimited Literature)
Cornfield
The Cloud (Flash Frontier)
Flight (London Independent Short Story Prize finalist)
Same Time Next Year
Rats with Wings
The Little Dog Laughed
The Lesson Plan
Wallpaper
Settling Up
Pigs Can Fly
Worth Keeping
Swimmer (Emerge Literary Journal)
Sorrow (Panoplyzine)
Calaveras
Winter (Uproar)
Birth (Crepe and Pen)
A Light Eulogy
Wax (Strands International, India)
Grains of Sand
Ventriloquism
Everard (Grattan Street Press Anthology)
Hyla Smiles
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