Swann, DavidChantler, AshleyBlair, Peter2024-09-202024-09-202024-04-22Swann, D. (2024). Stronger Faster Shorter: Flash Fictions [Kindle Edition]. Flash: The International Short-Short Story Press.9780993182204http://hdl.handle.net/10034/629027This book is not available on ChesterRep.A cricket team’s youthful scorer has ‘lovely white knees’ and ‘delicate’ ears, but something inside him is wrong. A lad called Dewhurst likes to ‘bow down before the cows’. Frank has become allergic to his pigeons. At a university open day, a prospective student plays toilet tennis. A cub reporter for a local newspaper meets Cheese Horn and Wolftoucher at a CB Radio gathering. On a bus, there’s Sean, who has a mysterious ‘island-chain of burns stretching over face, scalp and neck’. Swann’s flashes are humorous, tender, and profound. One of his characters would say that the collection is ‘pearling’ and ‘ace’.Flash fictionMicro fictionEdited book2024-09-20