{"product_id":"richard-mallinsons-fast-fiction-volume-two-9781481781282","title":"Richard Mallinson's Fast Fiction: Volume Two","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Richard Mallinson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Authorhouse UK\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Authorhouse UK\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Short Stories (single author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt only a page each in length, Richard Mallinson's elegantly structured short stories are a pithy fast fiction for a modern multimedia age. A rapid succession of carefully worked observations, the stories read like a dynamic anthology of life's collisions and interactions, its projected plans and unexpected rotations. There is a great joy in the subverted (the interviewer becomes the interviewee; the private detective becomes the conspirator) as well as an interest in the open-ended. Possibility abounds, for these are always tales of the present; the past is unclear and the future unwritten. Adhering to the strict one-page format, the writing is marvelously precise: it is highly disciplined, but infinitely rich, conjuring the most unique and sharply observed characters with remarkably few words. If indeed \"we read fiction . . . in order to meet individuals\" as the character Tolson declares in Mallinson's \"Tolson's Creed,\" then in this anthology we are introduced to a plethora of distinct personalities, rendered all the more compelling by their relentless unpredictability.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Authorhouse UK","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47598281982103,"sku":"9781481781282","price":2513.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781481781282.webp?v=1775000288","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/richard-mallinsons-fast-fiction-volume-two-9781481781282","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}