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From Paradise to Wonderland

The story appears in my collection 'My Hearts Are Your Hearts' (Spineless Wonders Publishing). It is accompanied in the collection by the essay which I have added here.

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From Paradise to Wonderland

 

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The Dead Aviatrix

This is the title story from my new collection, The Dead Aviatrix: Eight short stories. It was inspired by something that happened to me as the writer of a novel some years ago. It was an awful and troubling thing, and I wondered for a long time about how to write about it in a useful and interesting way. The narrative involved my surname and the surname of an Australian woman flier, and it was a story about publishing. Then one day I was reading online about the phenomenon of the Stratemeyer Syndicate, the first book-packager for children, and I found there a story with a woman flier in it, and I was captivated by the sentence: The...

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The Dead Aviatrix: the story behind the stories

The Dead Aviatrix is an ebook published by Spineless Wonders in November 2017. It is the first book of short stories in the Spineless Wonders new Capsule Collection series. The eight stories in The Dead Aviatrix are not obviously connected with each other by theme or character or plot, although because they originate in my imagination, they all reflect my interests and concerns. The ebook is a gathering of eight of my stories that have been recently published in various journals. Here is an account of how the present collection came about.

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My Hearts Are Your Hearts

What are the hares getting up to among the sunflowers? Who is paying $6000 for a raincoat? The priest is good, kind, adored, believed – but can the schoolgirl trust him? Who kills his wife and dumps the body in the pool? What if you find your death was listed long ago online? With lightness in the telling, with subtle harmonies and rhythms in the sentences, subversive wit, tender observation – these twenty stories explore the mysterious workings of the heart. Accompanied by the author’s comments on the stories’ origins and themes, as well as insights into the creative process.

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