The Spoons That Are My Ears!

IMAGINARY HOTHEADS was written last year. The book consists of three sets of linked flash fictions, each set surrounded by a frame tale. The three sets are also linked to each other. They are 'The Moving Finger', 'Hannah and her Cisterns', and 'The Fortnight Fistfight', all of them novelettes in their own right (sort of).

To be even more precise, the volume features 76 stories in total that harness the motive forces of lateral logic to venture into unexplored corners of the great speculative fiction attic.

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I think I probably enjoy writing flash fiction more than any other type of fiction, especially when the flash fictions are grouped into meta-narratives. The frame tales for each section are sometimes outside the linked stories, where frames generally should be, but they can also be carried by the stories themselves, in which case the frames are assembled as the reader progresses through the text.

Main influences on my flash fictions: Kafka, Brautigan, Calvino, Borges, the usual suspects. If this sounds pretentious, then I apologise. I don't mean to imply that I am equal to these figures, merely that they inspire me to write my own examples of the form.