The Full Platter: a collection of short-short tales

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The Full Platter is a serving of flash fiction. These short-short stories deliver the punch instantly, much like how a puchka breaks in your mouth in a go, releasing flavors that fill you up. You reach for one more, wishing to experience the sour with the sweet, the liquid with the solid, everything that dissolves within you as you read one story after another. The themes are universal, and the moments, often specific. These stories reflect life held under the microscope of flash and reveal much of what lies beneath the masks we wear every day, the burdens we carry, the lives we don’t live but wish to live. ‘A Hard Learning’ shows a young boy, without a home or country to call his own, being pushed around and bullied, finally deciding to stay where he is and make it home. He changes his family’s narrative. ‘Leaving a Mark’ addresses the taboo around menstruation and how a woman turns this to her advantage. She makes sure the bloodstain shows when she bleeds. These flash stories carry truths imbued with irony and often a certain kind of humor and will be relished long after the first read.

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Weight 0.35 kg
Dimensions 8 × 5 × 0.3 in
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Hawakal Publishers

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Abha Iyengar is an award-winning poet, writer, editor, British Council certified creative writing mentor, and founder of Creative Wings Studio. She has authored seven books, co-edited a short story anthology, and curated Kintsugi, a flash fiction collection. Her poemfilm, Parwaaz, won a Special Jury prize in
Patras, Greece. Flash Bites, Abha’s flash fiction collection, received mention in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature (Sage, UK, 2015). Her flash novella, Many Fish to Fry, is part of the Flash Collection at Seaborne Library, University of Chester, UK. More about the author: www.abhaiyengar.com

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