Flame Tip: Short Fictions

A man hacks off his hair and loses his way. Another spends his days tramping through national parks and his nights composing emails of complaint. An unhinged mourner marauds his way through MONA. A seventy-year-old woman seeks a companion while another revisits her great love story. A spurned wife has the last laugh and a young girl marries her weather man. Flame Tip is a collection of short fictions that are as diverse in subject matter as they are in length, all tenuously (and sometimes obscurely) connected by the Tasmanian Black Tuesday bushfires of 1967. The stories are about love, danger, infidelity, loss, laughter and redemption, with a dose of Aussie humour interlacing the occasional grim tale. Despite the horror, these stories reveal nuances of character and place through resilience, empathy, honesty and humour.