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Battery Pack: Volume I
Battery Pack is Neon‘s new micro-anthology of tiny short stories. In fact, these six tales are so short that the whole thing clocks in at less than five hundred words. In those five hundred words, however, you’ll find vivid tales of ghosts, lost lifeboats, memories and dreams. Battery Pack is free online, or in print with the latest issue of Neon. You can also download, print and fold your own free copy below.
This volume features the work of David Hartley, Henry Northmore, Sarah Butler, Tamasine Reilley, Jenny Mackenzie, and Tracy Fells.
This volume features the work of David Hartley, Henry Northmore, Sarah Butler, Tamasine Reilley, Jenny Mackenzie, and Tracy Fells.
8 pages, Paperback
Published July 31, 2014
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March 24, 2018
This is a micro-anthology – a tiny wee collection of nanofiction given away free with Neon Magazine.
I’m a sucker for this stuff. Anybody who can fit an entire story into fewer than a hundred words is displaying some serious writing chops. This pamphlet-sized effort delivers on over half of them, with only Mackenzie’s ‘Mop Boyfriend’ and Hartley’s ‘Pickaxe’ falling short of the mark.
Butler’s ‘Missing’ is written in a dry, prosaic style that sucks all the emotion out of the piece. I mean that in a good way – a heartbreaking premise is delivered through such downtrodden prose that it becomes difficult to read.
‘Tears of Eve’ is a darkly comic story, with a great end line, whilst Reilly’s ‘Birthday Present’ is truly brutal snapshot of psychopathy.
Best of all is Henry Northmore’s ‘Fruits de Mer’. With a denouement/punchline straight out of EC Comics or an Amicus portmanteau, he produces a chilling story in less time that it takes to read this appraisal of it.
Recommended.
I’m a sucker for this stuff. Anybody who can fit an entire story into fewer than a hundred words is displaying some serious writing chops. This pamphlet-sized effort delivers on over half of them, with only Mackenzie’s ‘Mop Boyfriend’ and Hartley’s ‘Pickaxe’ falling short of the mark.
Butler’s ‘Missing’ is written in a dry, prosaic style that sucks all the emotion out of the piece. I mean that in a good way – a heartbreaking premise is delivered through such downtrodden prose that it becomes difficult to read.
‘Tears of Eve’ is a darkly comic story, with a great end line, whilst Reilly’s ‘Birthday Present’ is truly brutal snapshot of psychopathy.
Best of all is Henry Northmore’s ‘Fruits de Mer’. With a denouement/punchline straight out of EC Comics or an Amicus portmanteau, he produces a chilling story in less time that it takes to read this appraisal of it.
Recommended.
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