Small Wonders is Pretty Ace

Gotta say I’m a fan of the old flash fiction, and I loves me some of that prose poetry too, even if it’s sometimes hard to tell the difference between them. So it was kinda excitement to hear that I was going to get to be in Small Wonder, an anthology published by Spineless Wonders featuring some of Australia’s better proponents of either/or form.

Also pleasing is the opening page of Small Wonders that posits a possible definition of both ff and pp, courtesy Jonathan Carr:

Flash fiction is a compact distilled piece of writing that follows all of the dictates (or lack thereof) that one would place on a work of fiction. It is an act of distillation. Of sparseness. Minimal strokes. A prose poem is often the very opposite. Where flash fiction is a working down of a form, prose poetry is an exploding up of a form, a release from structure, a star erupting, a channel run straight from the brain stem to the pen.

It’s a lovely quote, and I particularly like the way that the stuff about ff is all short punchy sentences, while the stuff about pp is a long imagistic run-on sentence. Kudos, Mr. Carr.

Anyway, I’ve got this thing called “Sequel” in there (and can we just pause for a moment to go eeeeeeee! because it was shortlisted by joanne motherfucking burns?) which is a reimagining of sorts of that terrible Cowboys vs. Aliens film that I hadn’t seen at the time, but which I have seen since and boy is that a terrible film.