About the Book
Shards of Mirrors is a collection of 16 flash fiction pieces by Carin Marais. The stories are thematically linked, with the writer exploring
loss, grief, forgetting, and remembering throughout the collection. Though not
light-hearted, many of the stories are bittersweet and even hopeful.
The genres range from
steampunk (“Calling the Rain”), and
horror (“The Call from Below”, “Red”), to sci-fi (“Shared Memories in High
Definition”, “Petrichor”) and fantasy (“A Cup of Tea”, “A Fair Trade”).
Carin Marais is a South African fantasy author whose fiction and articles have appeared in Every Day Fiction, Jozi Flash (2016, 2017), Speculative Grammarian, Inkspraak and, most recently, Vrouekeur. Her flash fiction collection Dim Mirrors appeared in 2016, with a second collection appearing in 2018. She is also a contributor to the website The Mighty.
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