Description
Book SynopsisMotorway Service Stations are places where people pass through on their way to somewhere else: somewhere better, somewhere brighter. But every traveller has a tale to tell, a story of their own, and sometimes they're not what you'd expect. Braking Distance is a glimpse beneath the surface. It brings you love, death, lust, loss, betrayal, belonging, murder, aliens and a time-travelling adventuress being chased by a dastardly foe!
This collection is made up of loosely connected stories, all occurring in the same place at the same time, sprawling out across different genres, styles, perspectives and emotions. The camera swings from place to place, and over the course of eighteen short stories, builds up a picture which is surprising, exciting and strange.
Trade ReviewCalum Kerr’s flash fictions are funny and moving and leap off the page with all the immediacy and urgency with which they were written.
-- David Gaffney
Table of Contents
- Two Households, Both Alike
- Take a Break
- Virtuous Patience
- Routine
- Constant Vigilance 1
- Closing the Circle
- Justified Violence
- The Pain of Frustration
- Constant Vigilance 2
- The Gateway to Peril
- Extrinsic Justice
- A Story of More Woe
- Immanence
- Undercover Surveillance
- Hot and Cold
- You Caught My Eye
- The Centre Cannot Hold (a Simple Tray)
- Intervention
