Bracket A New Generation in Fiction

by Ritchie Walker, Fiona; Petrucci, Mario; Ritchie Walker, Char; Feeny, Penny; Page, Ra

• ISBN13: 9781857547696
• ISBN10: 1857547691
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-30
• Publisher: Comma Press

Summary

Continuing Comma's project to bring the best in UK short fiction to readers around the world, Bracket is the latest in their acclaimed series of short story anthologies, including Comma and Hyphen. Bringing together 20 of the UK's most innovative, fresh, and previously unpublished writers, ranging from recent Creative Writing graduates to writers already well-established in other fields, the collection bristles with diverse voices, from the comic to the tragic to the ambiguous spaces in between. From the cliffs of Flamborough Head to high rise, inner city madness; from lost loves to the last days of civilization the varied settings and scenarios in these stories captivate and unsettle in equal measure. These are stories written in the dark, spoken without much hope of being heard; expressions of a modern melancholy, as one critic has put it, but all the time striving for that most unlikely modern thing: intimacy.

Author Biography

Ra Page is the editor of Leeds Stories and Newcastle Stories.

Table of Contents

The removal	p. 1
Five miles out	p. 5
An obsession with orange	p. 19
The priest	p. 25
3,000 degrees	p. 35
Black box	p. 43
What I did on my holidays	p. 51
The disfigurement	p. 61
Redemption	p. 67
Revelations of divine love	p. 79
Infinity	p. 93
Ramshackle	p. 99
Shooting jelly from a shotgun	p. 105
Cord	p. 107
Falling out of the sky	p. 111
Help me	p. 119
Do something good	p. 123
About a boy, a man and a duck	p. 131
When silence is the only thing we leave behind	p. 135
The last day	p. 147
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