Ten Acceptable Acts of Arson
and other very short stories
Will be published approx. on 16. August 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
136 pages
978-1-988503-25-7 (ISBN)
Description
With a crisp insouciance and gliding charm, Jack Cottrell's fiery, fey, finely-tuned fictions leap from sci-fi to fantasy, comedy to horror, literary realism to romance, and to hybrids of all of these.Featuring sport, friendship, love, health, family, climate change, artificial intelligence, desire, magic, Greek gods, ghosts, peanut butter, cyber pranks, racial prejudice, and creepy medical advances, his stories play with the allure of the past, the disturbances of our own times, and the dangerous idealism of our future technologies - each one in fewer than 300 words.Jack is a writer and volunteer rugby referee who knows how to pack a lot into a small space, whether a story or an extremely organised sports bag. With 'Ten Acceptable Acts of Arson', has he worked out how to cram an entire universe into a pocket-sized capsule?
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Language
English
Place of publication
Christchurch
New Zealand
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 165 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-988503-25-7 (9781988503257)
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Person
Jack Remiel Cottrell (Ngati Rangi) grew up in Wellington and now lives in Auckland. His flash fiction collection was awarded the Wallace Prize for best manuscript in the University of Auckland Master of Creative Writing class of 2020. He has been published in numerous anthologies and online magazines, and his novella-in-flash 'Latter Day Saints' was published in 2018 by Ad Hoc Press.