More Sawn-Off Tales

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Laugh-out-loud funny, cringingly weird, desperately sad, David Gaffney’s characters are awkward, often disconnected, yet profoundly sympathetic. He creates a lonely, yet deliriously lovely universe, where relationships begin, stutter, then crash to earth, and each mundane transaction peels away the everyday to reveal a canyon of emotion. Shrigley meets Curb.

Gaffney's latest is a masterful taster menu, every mouthful wickedly inventive and deliciously absurd. Brilliant.  Adam Marek

These perfectly constructed fictions are eliptical, sharp, witty and dazzling. They're written with a poet's eye for detail and a novelist's appreciation of human faults and foibles. Another wonderful collection.  Jenn Ashworth

Reading David Gaffney's flash fiction feels a lot like travelling from an atom to a planet in the space of a minute. By turns sharp, poignant, surreal, lyrical and very, very funny, the collection reveals intense knowledge and control of the form, along with a desire to push the boundaries in every direction to see exactly how much flash can do (the answer: A Lot). His titles alone are miniature works of art; anyone who calls a story 'The three rooms in Valerie's head' or 'The mousemats say innovate or die' has to be a genius.    Emma Jane Unsworth
 

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More Sawn-Off Tales is out now - buy one here

On Thursday 13th June 2013 David launched More Sawn-Off tales at TAKK cafe, alongside Gregory Norminton, with a unique spoken word DJ set by the Monkeys In Love. Heres some photos from the event



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"great read, these twisted wee tales." 
Johnny Vegas, 2014

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