My flash fiction collection ‘Oh I Do Like To Be’ has been accepted for publication by Alien Buddha Press and is now available to order on Amazon.

So a pause was necessary.Īnd I am delighted to announce that it seems to have paid off! Working full time meant that writing time was scarce and the blog was taking up a chunk of that. I had committed to completing a first draft of my novel and I had a completed flash collection that I really wanted to tidy up and find a home for. The reason for this was because I wanted to concentrate on my own writing. It has been quiet on the blog for a very long time now…īack at the beginning of the year I made the decision to take an extended break from reviewing. Find her at And there is more…įor more reviews and reactions check out the rest of the blog tour. She is managing Editor at Flash Fiction Magazine. Her short fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize as well as Best Small Fictions. Her writing has been published by Ellipsis Zine, Complete Sentence, Reflex Fiction and Emerge Literary Journal. Her micro-chapbook, The Swell of Seafoam was published by Ghost City Press’. She has been shortlisted for the Bath Flash Fiction Award and won Retreat West’s Monthly Micro contest. Keely O’Shaughnessy is a fiction writer with Cerebral Palsy, who lives in Gloucestershire, U.K with her husband and two cats. However stories that really spoke to me were the deliciously quirky What if we breathed through our skin?, the heartbreaking How to bake cookies when your child is dying?, and the tension filled The Locked Cupboard.īut please, don’t just take my word for any of this!! Get out there order you own copy by clicking right here. It is hard to pick a favourite, or even favourites from these stories.

Mothers, sisters and daughters dance darkly through these pages, each with their own strangely beautiful tale to tell.

Her writing twists and subverts like the darkest of fairy tales. Keely has a unique and beautiful insight into the everyday, often drifting into the lands of myth and magic. They take the important, pivotal moments of life and dive under the surface, pushing beneath the skin of feelings and responses, and pushing boundaries too. It takes us on a journey from childhood to marriage, parenthood and back again.įrom the very beginning and, indeed the title story, these stories pack an emotional punch. This is a collection which gets to the heart of families and their complexities. And welcome to my blog tour review for the brand new flash collection from Keely O’Shaughnessy A Baby is a Thing Best Whispered.įirst off I am going to ask if you have ever heard a better title for a flash collection?! Because I love this one and it alone would be enough to pull me in and make me want to read this book!!!īut believe me there is so much more to this collection than a cracking title.

Chouette by claire oshetsky