Mercury Blobs

by Sylvia Petter, Nik Perring (Editor), Sharon Ratheiser (Illustrator)

A collection of flash fiction which will challenge and delight readers. All over the place in the space of a mind. “The brilliant stories in Sylvia Petter’s Mercury Blobs are sometimes very funny and sometimes very moving, and often they are both at once, which is one of the best tests of a truly serious writer. Moreover, she is a master of the very short fictional forms that have become a crucial expressive medium of the 21st-century sensibility. This is a splendid collection from a gifted writer–Robert Olen Butler, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain.

161 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 19, 2013

About the author

Writer of short and long, serious, sexy and fun. Australian in Austria, but all over the place in the space of a mind.

Reviews

[Shirley Golden · Rating 5 out of 5]

This collection contains short stories and flash fictions, and is the third collection of Sylvia's stories that I've read; I have to confess that I'm a fan! Sylvia draws you right in to the characters' exchanges and idiosyncrasies. Some are great fun and heartwarming, such as 'Stiletto Condoms' and 'Fences'; others resound beautifully, such as 'Tick-Tocking', 'Imagination' and 'Anna's Flags'. My favourites are 'Want of a Strong Man', and 'The Burka' where the interactions reveal human complexities for both its failings and endurance. Recommended.