
Braking Distance
Calum Kerr(Author)
Salt Publishing
Will be published approx. on 30. April 2012
Book
Pamphlet
48 pages
978-1-84471-912-9 (ISBN)
Description
Motorway Service Stations are places where people pass through on their way to somewhere else: somewhere better, somewhere brighter. But every traveller has a tale to tell, a story of their own, and sometimes they're not what you'd expect. Braking Distance is a glimpse beneath the surface. It brings you love, death, lust, loss, betrayal, belonging, murder, aliens and a time-travelling adventuress being chased by a dastardly foe!
This collection is made up of loosely connected stories, all occurring in the same place at the same time, sprawling out across different genres, styles, perspectives and emotions. The camera swings from place to place, and over the course of eighteen short stories, builds up a picture which is surprising, exciting and strange.
This collection is made up of loosely connected stories, all occurring in the same place at the same time, sprawling out across different genres, styles, perspectives and emotions. The camera swings from place to place, and over the course of eighteen short stories, builds up a picture which is surprising, exciting and strange.
Reviews / Votes
Calum Kerr's flash fictions are funny and moving and leap off the page with all the immediacy and urgency with which they were written. -- David GaffneyMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Illustrations
Not illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 3 mm
Weight
63 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84471-912-9 (9781844719129)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Calum Kerr is a short story and flash-fiction writer living in Southampton. He is an associate lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Winchester, the fiction editor of Gumbo Press who produce the bi-monthly literary e-magazine, Word Gumbo, and is the co-ordinator for National Flash-Fiction Day 2012. His stories have appeared in a number of journals and magazines and his current project, flash365, can be viewed online at flash365.blogspot.com. More information can be found at www.calumkerr.co.uk.
Content
Two Households, Both Alike
Take a Break
Virtuous Patience
Routine
Constant Vigilance 1
Closing the Circle
Justified Violence
The Pain of Frustration
Constant Vigilance 2
The Gateway to Peril
Extrinsic Justice
A Story of More Woe
Immanence
Undercover Surveillance
Hot and Cold
You Caught My Eye
The Centre Cannot Hold (a Simple Tray)
Intervention
Take a Break
Virtuous Patience
Routine
Constant Vigilance 1
Closing the Circle
Justified Violence
The Pain of Frustration
Constant Vigilance 2
The Gateway to Peril
Extrinsic Justice
A Story of More Woe
Immanence
Undercover Surveillance
Hot and Cold
You Caught My Eye
The Centre Cannot Hold (a Simple Tray)
Intervention