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Battery Pack: Volume II
Battery Pack Volume Two is Neon Books’s second anthology of micro-fiction. Within its tiny pages are six extremely short stories, ranging in subject matter from gigantic deserts to sentient teabags, from the horrors of war to the horrors of an election. You can find this edition of Battery Pack included free with issue forty-one of Neon.
This edition includes the work of Colin Hill, Jennifer Albon Burns, Lucy Yates, Andrew Jack Foster, Catherine Edmunds and Rosemary Harris.
This edition includes the work of Colin Hill, Jennifer Albon Burns, Lucy Yates, Andrew Jack Foster, Catherine Edmunds and Rosemary Harris.
8 pages, Paperback
Published November 2, 2015
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March 24, 2018
The second volume of Neon Books’s micro-anthologies offers six further snippets of nanofiction. As mentioned in my previous review, this is a format that I have great affection for, but this edition has nowhere near the impact its forebear managed.
Three of the stories – Hill’s ‘Making Love in the TV’, Yates’s ‘Mess’ and Foster’s ‘Kitchenmirror’ - are weird for the sake of weird, without any of the balls-out charm of bizarro. Not my cup of tea.
‘Polling Day’ by Jennifer Albon Burns feels like it could be a starting point for something more substantial, but as a standalone piece it misses the mark by a wide margin.
The remaining stories almost – but not quite – make up for the limitations of the others. Edmunds’s ‘Fifty Thin Men’ is a grim reminder of the realities of war. So is ‘Vigil’ by Rosemary Harris, albeit in an entirely different way. This is truly the gem of this anthology, cramming a novel’s worth of heartbreak into fewer than 70 words.
Alas, not quite enough for me to recommend the collection as a whole.
Three of the stories – Hill’s ‘Making Love in the TV’, Yates’s ‘Mess’ and Foster’s ‘Kitchenmirror’ - are weird for the sake of weird, without any of the balls-out charm of bizarro. Not my cup of tea.
‘Polling Day’ by Jennifer Albon Burns feels like it could be a starting point for something more substantial, but as a standalone piece it misses the mark by a wide margin.
The remaining stories almost – but not quite – make up for the limitations of the others. Edmunds’s ‘Fifty Thin Men’ is a grim reminder of the realities of war. So is ‘Vigil’ by Rosemary Harris, albeit in an entirely different way. This is truly the gem of this anthology, cramming a novel’s worth of heartbreak into fewer than 70 words.
Alas, not quite enough for me to recommend the collection as a whole.
January 25, 2019
Thoughtful and precise flash fiction.
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