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Succinct in length and vast in imagination, Gaffney's micro stories are bizarre and witty slices of condensed reality. Frequently hilarious and often poignant, they leave an after taste that is resonant, dark and clingy. They sometimes seem to glow from the inside with their own awful secrets.
List of contents
- Half open
- A certain type of man
- Talking about Emmy-Lou
- Everything's gone turquoise
- The history brush
- Having it like Pontefract
- Half aware
- Towns in France exactly like this
- Junctions one to four were never built
- Buildings crying out
- Everlast
- The forcing of air
- Live feed
- Half There :
- The Three Daves
- Are Friends Electric?
- You Would Have
- I Liked Everything
- Half Here:
- Wooden Animals
- Remaking the Moon
- Do the Voice
- Pathfinders
- Emergency Kisses
- Celia's Mum's Rat
- Half Gone:
- We are the Real Time Experiment
- Delivered by Sharks
- Previously Loved
- The Ones we Left
- Shaky Ron and the Chewing Gum Robots
- Half Awake:
- Double Digging
- Away Day
- Gelling
- Candy Girl
- One Thing Deeply
- Don't Thank Me Thank the Moon's Gravitational Pull
- Half Alone:
- How the Taste Gets In
- Desire lLnes
- To Cause Amusement
- Spoilt Victorian Child
- Heart Keeps Holding On
- Domino Bones
- Half Loved:
- Some World, Somewhere
- The Next Best Thing
- Portraits of Insane Women
- Monkeys in lLove
- Is Your Thought Really Necessary?
- Half Whole:
- The Valued Coach Driver and his Spiral Wife
- Music Like ours Never Dies
- The Buddy Holly Electrician
- Keep Them on, Love
- What You See is There
- Coned
- Not Static
- Half Closed:
- The Only Man with Fire
- People who Don't Belong
- So Much Noise
- The Half-Life of Songs
- Come and Play in the Milky Night
About the author
David Gaffney lives in Manchester. He is the author of the novels
Never Never (2008),
All The Places I've Ever Lived ( 2017) and
Out Of The Dark (2022) plus the flash fiction and short story collections
Sawn-Off Tales (2006),
Aromabingo (2007),
The Half-Life of Songs (2010) and
More Sawn-Off Tales (2013). His graphic novels with Dan Berry include
The Three Rooms In Valerie's Head (2018) and
Rivers (2021).
