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Winner of the inaugural Mslexia Novella Award (2019). She used to
be someone else, but now she's arrived in Vegas, where she can
start again. It won't do to let the past leak in. It's the Sixties
now. She's going to become ... Joan. She makes a list: Buy a new
dress (fitted, floral). Dye her hair (dark). Curl it. Buy red
lipstick. Buy cigarettes and a lighter, too: Joan, she decides, is
a smoker. There's no need to dwell on why she's here, what went
before. She is just moving forward, one foot in front of the other,
becoming that new person. Joan. This city of flashing neon, casinos
and shows is full of distractions. Finding a job will be quick and
easy. Things to do. New people to meet. A clean sheet. She's
certainly not thinking about Jack, or ... No. Not any more. Her new
life starts right here, right now.
"A brilliant, deeply unsettling work." Books + Publishing. Jeff is
dying. Haunted by memories and grappling with shame, he runs away
to a remote part of Scotland with a piece of beta tech that allows
him to enter the mind of someone in the past. Instructed to only
use it three times, Jeff - self- indulgent, isolated and
deteriorating - ignores this advice. In the late 1860s, Leonora
lives in the Scottish Highlands, surrounded by nature.
Contemplating the social conventions that bind her, her contented
life and a secret romantic friendship with the local laird are
interrupted when her father sends her to stay with her aunt in
Edinburgh. But Leonora's ability to embrace her new life is
shadowed by a dark presence that begins to lurk behind her eyes,
and strange visions. A Superior Spectre is a novel about curiosity,
entitlement and manipulation. It reminds us that the scariest
ghosts aren't the ones that go bump in the night, but those that
are born and create a place for themselves in the human soul.
In this anthology, our editor, Angela Meyer, pays tribute to the
undeniable cultural influence that American TV programs such as
Twilight Zone and Outer Limits have had on our lives 'down under'.
'These TV dramas,' Meyer says, ' were often metaphors for equality,
justice, the nuclear threat and more. Though they were just as
often pure, spooky fun.' Meyer has selected short stories and
microfiction which range from the fantastical and macabre to the
absurd. In Paddy O'Reilly's Reality TV, a guest is confronted with
her husband's infidelity in front of a live audience and Ali
Alizedah's Truth and Reconciliation satirizes American celebrity
television. Chris Flynn's Sealer's Cove has a nudist caught in a
time slip. Carmel Bird evokes Edgar Allan Poe when over-sized hares
incite the good folk of rural Victoria to commit criminal acts and
in Sticks and Stones, Ryan O'Neill has an academic attacked by a
demonic alphabet. Contributors include established and emerging
writers such as Marion Halligan, Krissy Kneen as well as new
talents. Angela Meyer is a Melbourne-based writer and reviewer. Her
fiction has been published in Seizure, Wet Ink, The Lifted Brow.
She has written on books for many publications including The Big
Issue, The Australian, and Crikey and she has interviewed authors
at festivals across Australia and overseas. A chapbook of her flash
fiction will be published by Inkerman & Blunt in 2014.
Literaryminded.com.au
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