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'A young girl flies alone to Antarctica. A man goes on holiday and meets the politician he thinks has ruined his life. Here are ordinary characters in unusual circumstances, trying to cope with the vagaries that life throws at them. The unexpected repercussions of going to Thailand for dental work or floundering on the high seas in a sinking yacht.
'Meet Ned Kelly as you’ve never seen him. Listen to an articulate budgie ruminating on his destiny. From the domestic to the sublime and the sublimely absurd, these stories will take you out of your comfort zone. Blundering through life, O'Flynn’s characters adapt to the pitfalls they dig for themselves, coming to grips with their tenuous place in a world slightly off balance.' (Publication summary)
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Epigraph: Though there are torturers in the world there are also musicians. -Michael Coady, "Though There are Torturers" (from Oven Lane)
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Works about this Work
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Small Bites Bitter, Sweet
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 14 March 2020; (p. 20)
— Review of Dental Tourism 2020 selected work short story'Over the course of his career, Mark O’Flynn has lived Robert A. Heinlein’s maxim, “specialisation is for insects”: he has written poetry, plays, memoir and novels. There have been stories in Australian literary journals and in esteemed overseas publications such as Ireland’s The Moth.'
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Small Bites Bitter, Sweet
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 14 March 2020; (p. 20)
— Review of Dental Tourism 2020 selected work short story'Over the course of his career, Mark O’Flynn has lived Robert A. Heinlein’s maxim, “specialisation is for insects”: he has written poetry, plays, memoir and novels. There have been stories in Australian literary journals and in esteemed overseas publications such as Ireland’s The Moth.'
