Neil Armstrong in North Somerset - Jack Lethbridge

A wonderful collection of 'flash fiction' - storiestypically of less than two pages.

Including the Fish Flash Fiction prize-winning 'Passing Over Paradise' - describedby judge Chris Stewart as a "satisfyingly artful conceit."

The visit of an astronaut to a Somerset pub, an Indianwaiter struggling to live up to his review, a boy who is born without a heart,a man who waits for a taxi he knows will never come, a carpenter who seeks toprofit from the fall of Troy. These are just some of the eccentric and poignantcharacters who inhabit these short, often very short, stories.

David Gaffney, a master of the genre, describes aflash story as "a nimble, nippy little thing that could turn on a sixpence andaccelerate quickly away". In this fine collection of 'nimble nippy littlethings', Jack Lethbridge offers us succinct but satisfying stories designed forthose with fast lives, offering us something to consume and contemplate inthose short quiet spaces in otherwise frantic lives - a coffee break at workperhaps, or in the dentist's waiting room, sitting in a carwash, waiting for apizza delivery.

As Jack says in the introductory story, "let me sharemy voices with you, these lives on the winds that I listen to while I wait.Keep me company for a while, and we can listen together."