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    Drowning on Air
    Drowning on Air
    Drowning on Air
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    Drowning on Air

    By Heidi Henning

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    This is a story that tests the boundaries of regular fiction. Time and narrative curve to accommodate a story where fact and supposition, instinct and intuition become blurred; sequence does not matter, past and present have a genesis apart from time.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris UK
    Release dateMay 28, 2014
    ISBN9781499086492
    Drowning on Air
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    Heidi Henning

    Heidi Henning was born in Johannesburg, and obtained a Bachelor of Arts from Wits University and a Masters in Creative Science from Edinburgh University. She has been frequently published in New Contrast Literary Journal and on litnet. Her first poetry collection, ‘Misheard’ was published in 2012 with Xlibris, and her second poetry collection ‘Calm’ was published in 2014 with Geko Publishers. She lives in Namibia with her partner and two young girls.

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