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This flash fiction novella, The Grief Manuscript, illustrates the dream-like, annihilating, and repetitive gestures of a dying marriage. The story recasts the emotional range of grief using metaphorical images and remarkable characters in brief, poetic scenes. The recently separated narrator inhabits a series of temporary houses as she faces the devastating and radical identity changes that come with divorce. Grief activates the narrator's demon, who appears in the form of a small monster, the Burden Animal, who torments her with her previous humiliations and belief that she is a burden to…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
This flash fiction novella, The Grief Manuscript, illustrates the dream-like, annihilating, and repetitive gestures of a dying marriage. The story recasts the emotional range of grief using metaphorical images and remarkable characters in brief, poetic scenes. The recently separated narrator inhabits a series of temporary houses as she faces the devastating and radical identity changes that come with divorce. Grief activates the narrator's demon, who appears in the form of a small monster, the Burden Animal, who torments her with her previous humiliations and belief that she is a burden to those who love her. Magical realism offers images of personal torment, where the narrator's head falls off, spiders crawl up her throat, her tongue escapes, and the fields of her psyche burn. It isn't until the narrator accepts the full expanse of her grief that she can see a way to move forward to what is "next."
Autorenporträt
Frankie Rollins is the author of three works of fiction, The Grief Manuscript, The Sin Eater & Other Stories, and Doctor Porchiat's Dream. Originally advertising her classes with a sandwich board at a farmer's market in 2001, Frankie has taught creative writing in import stores, living rooms, coffeeshops, florists, K-12 classrooms, and in scores of college classrooms, traditional and online. In 2023, Frankie launched the Fifth Brain Collective, offering imaginative writing coaching, innovative classes, and an online community platform for writers.