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    North & South

    BOOKS

    Aug 23, 2021 5 minutes
    Edited by PAUL LITTLE

    TEN ACCEPTABLE ACTS OF ARSON AND OTHER VERY SHORT STORIES

    by Jack Remiel Cottrell

    Canterbury University Press — $29.99

    The flash fiction genre, of which this collection is an example, will be new to many readers, who may be diverted by the multiple meanings of the adjective. “Shining brightly”, “moving quickly”, “conspicuously impressive” — all these are relevant here, although, strictly speaking, when it comes to fiction, the label refers to work of extreme brevity.

    There is nothing hasty about Cottrell’s debut. There is evidence of much hard grind here, as anyone who has ever tried to wrestle a lot of information into a short space will realise. Most of the 96 tales are confined within the borders of a single page. They are given some order by being divided among the days of the week, each section starting with a short account titled “A Week in the

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