Sixty Second Fiction

By Jem Barnes

At last! Literature for the time-starved generation. One hundred amazingly short stories including:
-Slightly amusing snapshots
-Criminal activities
-Child, youth, thug
-Life and all that stuff
-Marriage, birds and blokes
-Stroboscopic glimpses
Read one – Reflect on it (extra time needed for this) – Forget it – Read another. GUARANTEED: Interesting plots, fast-moving stories, engaging characters, challenging issues, Some violence
For the first time literature that requires no commitment from the reader above sixty seconds. What have you got to lose?

Author Stephen Leather says:

“There's a knack to writing flash fiction like this and Jem has it. Stories that are so short that they are finished almost before you've started but the ideas within stay with you long after you've put the book down. I loved them all. Brilliant for the bathroom when you just want a short read!”

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jem Barnes
• Release date: Nov 21, 2011
• ISBN: 9781466068377

Jem Barnes

In 200 words: Jeremy (Jem) Barnes was born in Watford, son of a not very successful salesman and an accomplished local businesswoman. On leaving school he sold life assurance for a while before joining the Theatre in Education Team at Watford’s Palace Theatre,. He trained as a drama teacher at Bretton Hall. On graduation he ran the Basingstoke’s Drama Centre where he masterminded the world’s first Pantomime Horse of the Year Show and events like Eric’s Insides and Rebirth, large-scale models of the human digestive system and the female reproductive system respectively. At the West End Centre in Aldershot, he promoted theatre companies like Theatre de Complicite, The Snarling Beasties, and The Right Size and bands like The Stone Roses, The Real Sounds of Africa and Dumpy’s Rusty Nuts! An eclectic arts mix for sure, He became Communications Manager for a regional charity spetializing in written communications of all kinds. He lives in Hindhead, Surrey, UK.with artist wife, Susan. Jem's disability (MS) gives him a strong interest in NHS and disability matters. Now in semi-retirement, he has specialised in Volunteering and Communication. He is a general computer enthusiast having taught "Computers for the Clueless" all over the area. SIXTY SECOND FICTION is his first publication.

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