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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Thomas Timmins
The first portion of the book, "Ding Dong Cart," is a story album composed of heartfelt, delightful, and whimsical flash fiction tales. Just a Gun," the second section, contains rewrites…
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Smoke
My other self cries out in her crow voice, more wind in it than snarl…from somewhere, there, off to my left…he sits there in the clearing, in a grassy…
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A tragic accident in a soyfoods factory - or is it an accident? The National Enquirer runs a story titled Murder in a Tofu Factory? and Charlie Greer, owner of…
Genevieve O'Connor learns of her boss Charlie’s rash relationship with the daughter of Chang Meng, American Tofu’s top customer while Charlie discovers the truth about the Special Fruit Meng wants…
Benko Gladonov, production manager of American Tofu, has the diary of the woman who died in an accident in the tofu factory. The diary implicates factory owner and entrepreneur par…
If you thought tofu was bland and virtuous, welcome to the dark comedic world of THE HOUR BETWEEN ONE AND TWO - in the new genre ‘tofu noir’. You’ll travel…
To my children and their children for asking
Why, forcing me to come up with a story
or a metaphor or a fact or another question
so we could learn…
Tom Timmins has published several volumes of poetry including Likings for Shadows and I was just laughing. His fiction includes the Tofu Noir collection The Hour Between One and Two…
Beats in timeI can never get lonesome enough to stop worrying about how much is enough and the conditions and qualities worldwide of potable water in 2035, or even 2025…
Down in the CellarThe channel running under our old house flows through granite stone, a smooth lightless stream. Down in the cellar we open a door, a door in the…
From form to content and back to form, From norm to crazy and back to norm, From bound to free and back to bound, From sound to sense and back…
Zoe Rarefield knows she can live forever if she can entice an angel to bear her up to her mother in heaven. In her pursuit, Zoe stumbles into potentially the…
Wings
We returned to the woods from a three-day journeythrough the dizzy land of the casino.Today’s a Saturday morning resurrection.
Somewhere in my family DNA, a Christiansings…
… Sensitive like the fox. Hangs around after dark, knows when he’s getting too close and when it’s time to leave. I leave. I keep coming back.
Richard Brautigan, western writer
Richard Brautigan had to talk, needed listeners to feel his thoughts. So, when he was alone, he saddled up and rode his keyboard, stopping to pick…
Likings for Shadows Questions, Conjectures, Facts, Opinions, Riddles, & Preposterous Declarations Concerning the Physical, Biological, Emotional, & Transcendental Natures of the Most Unexamined Fundamental Force
Zom is indestructible. He loves to work and can do anything physical, far beyond what is expected of him - but he can’t find a job. He tries working as…
