Lunch Hour: A flash-fiction collection

by Calum Kerr

One office. Many lives.It is that time of day: the time for poorly-filled, pre-packaged sandwiches; the time to run errands you won't have enough time for; the time to fall in love, to kill or be killed, to take advice from an alien.It's the Lunch Hour.This collection of thirty flash-fictions examines the life of the workers in an office during the one time of day when they have the freedom to be who they want to be. It is linked series of stories from Calum Kerr, the writer of 31, Braking Distance, Lost Property and the other 2014 Flash365 collections.

110 pages, Paperback

First published April 25, 2014

Reviews

[Georgia Rose · Rating 5 out of 5]

It’s difficult to stop reading a book made up of such short stories as you get drawn along wanting to get on with the next one, so I didn’t really, pretty much finishing it in one sitting! I didn’t realise at first that these stories were linked but as the stories flowed, each one complete in itself, the underlying storyline developed showing a picture of an office at lunchtime and its occupants. People’s lives are always interesting yet so often we don’t know much about those who work next to us and this collection of flash fiction covers a wide range of the office workers and their thoughts and feelings. A delightful collection of very well written short stories, there is something here for everyone and I highly recommend this excellent read.

[Santino · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lunch Hour is another great flash fiction collection by Calum Kerr. These flash fictions are set within one office block and all happen within the same lunch hour and, for me, this collection really embraces the different types of characters one might find in this environment and the different things people may try to achieve within their lunch hour. Read it now.

[Laura Besley · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have read a lot of Calum Kerr's work and to be honest I think this is my favourite.The flash fiction pieces, obviously, take place during the lunch hour of the office workers in this collection. Most are about the ordinary-ness of people's lives, but Kerr manages to work in his usual leaning toward the slightly-less-ordinary. Excellent!