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    Calico Flowers
    Calico Flowers
    Calico Flowers
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    Calico Flowers

    By Zenda Vecchio

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    This collection of short stories - probably my last - is made up of remnants, snippets of dreams, of things that have happened and things that I have only imagined. Hopefully, together they make up a field of flowers even if the flowers are only made up of fabric.


    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDebbie Lee
    Release dateSep 19, 2023
    ISBN9781761096082
    Calico Flowers
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    Zenda Vecchio

    Zenda Vecchio is an award-winning South Australian writer whose numerous short stories and poems have appeared in a variety of literary journals and magazines as well as collections published by Ginninderra Press. She is the author of three novels - Listen for the Nightingale and Becoming Kirsty-Lee, both for young adults, and the semi-autobiographical The Swan's Egg.

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