Loopholes: Microfiction

These perfectly formed microfictions provide glimpses into the everyday challenges of family life relationships ageing and loss. McCreerys characters are typical humans - flawed vulnerable frustrating and frustrated. Told with empathy and wit and honed with a wordsmiths skill Loopholes makes us see ourselves and each other differently.With illustrations by Bettina KaiserTo succeed microfiction must combine efficiency of text with immediacy of imagery and neat narrative twists all in a space small enough for a single reading. Its an artform that Susan McCreery shows a masterly command of. Hilary Simmons BOOKS ] PUBLISHINGShattered glass shifting shadows - these insights into the psyche are both chilling and hilarious. Ernest Hemingway eat your heart out. CARMEL BIRD winner 2016 Patrick White Literary AwardRanging in length from a page to four lines Susan McCreerys vivid glimpses into diverse lives and situations will amuse shock and inspire you.EMERITUS PROFESSOR ELIZABETH WEBBY AMSusan McCreery is a writer of insight and compassion who understands the complexities of human connection. Better than that she is sharp funny and unpredictable.ALI JANE SMITH GalaReading McCreerys one-page stories is like being a kid holding a Whitmans Sampler Box and trying to pick your favourite chocolate. Yum gritty as pistachio. Yum creamy as caramel. Of course I had to devour all of them in one sitting.JULIE CHEVALIER Darger and his girls Permission To Lie