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The father of octopus wrestling, and other small fictions /

Darkly comic, surreal and full of perceptiveness about human vulnerability and eccentricity, Frankie McMillan's small fictions often duck and dive away from the reader's expectations. With a poet's sense of how single words or phrases ripple out with alternate meanings, and a dramatis...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McMillan, Frankie (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Christchurch, New Zealand : Canterbury University Press, 2019.
Subjects:
Short stories, New Zealand.
Flash fiction.
Table of Contents:
  • The father of octopus wrestling. Seven starts to the man who loved trees
  • The father of octopus wrestling
  • The honking of ducks
  • The bride from Clarry's Vineyard
  • How we occupy ourselves
  • The geography of a father
  • Wrestling with the octopus
  • There's no slowing down at Anne Frank's house
  • A good match
  • Road kill
  • The hurry to dress
  • The hairy child. Reading the signs
  • Cover up
  • Keeping Evie Lu quiet
  • The hairy child
  • When gorillas sleep
  • The woman who came in from the cold
  • Russian letter 1
  • Russian letter 2
  • The birthday cake
  • Father war
  • The happy eggs from Podomosky. Hot air
  • Master key
  • Burning faith
  • Born in the year of the horse
  • Mr Eat-all
  • Salt
  • The snake keeper would do whatever you told him to
  • The happy eggs from Podomosky
  • 'And ye shall have dominion over the beasts of the field'
  • Jesus and the ostriches. Jesus and the ostriches
  • The man who saved the world gives the teachings of the trolley bus. I call my father Daddy and I know he likes that I do
  • Babushkas
  • Madame Curie's swans
  • The mothers of the mothers of the mothers
  • The General wants a new flag
  • The man who saved the world gives the teachings of the trolley bus
  • The blind heroine
  • Big Joe, walking on water
  • The hearts of fishes
  • After the fishes
  • Must have been he wanted the lawnmower to blow up
  • The fish my father gave me
  • Dirty mouth
  • Ways in which I, Elena, never grew up
  • One out of the hat
  • You are never completely gone. In the end days your father comes to visit
  • Deadwood
  • Who's in charge around here?
  • Man overboard
  • You are never completely gone
  • The jumping Frenchmen of Maine
  • the startle reflex
  • Father, mother on the cliff edge
  • Are we there yet?
  • The story inside her.