More Sawn-Off Tales
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
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
Read reviews of More sawn Off Tales here
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
"great read, these twisted wee tales."
Johnny Vegas, 2014
Johnny Vegas, 2014
