Smacked

<p><em>Smacked</em> is a moving collection of stories about addiction told with heart-stopping narrative control and emotional resonance.</p><p>- Roanna Gonsalves 2021 Carmel Digital Literary Award judge</p><p> </p><p>Runner-Up 2021 Carmel Digital Literary Award</p><p> </p><p>Hecq writes playfully and with irony thrumming prose and poetry in self-aware stories gravid with familiar yet unfamiliar protagonists and their dented victims or saviours. <em>Smacked and other stories of addiction</em> is a tight rope of connections and metaphors the reader walking on tiptoe with a balancing pole yet at the same time craving a haircut or a quince. </p><p>-Eugen Bacon author of <em>Claiming T-Mo</em> and <em>The Road to Woop Woop & Other Stories</em></p><p> </p><p>DOMINIQUE HECQ grew up in Belgium. She now lives in Melbourne. Hecq writes across genres and sometimes across tongues. Her works include a novel four collections of stories and eleven books of poetry. <em>Tracks</em> (2020) and <em>Songlines</em> (2021) are her latest offerings. With Eugen Bacon she co-authored <em>Speculate </em>(2021) a microlit dialogue.</p>