The Blown Kiss Collection

"A Hanging at Dredger's Gulp"; "The Stupidest Man in North America"; "Love Made the Drowned Man Rise"; "The Swami Putts for Par (Kristna Consciousness for Young Golfers"; "Irene's House of Poutine and Abuse"; and much more.. Calling this book an anthology of short stories is like trying to cage a menagerie of exotic creatures in a paper definition. Like trying to trap language that soars with Deelicious Mary's kisses across the air at the Black Duck into old Obbie's heart-shaped tin box, or that smashes into consciousness like porcelain angel scattered across Highway 17 blacktop. O'Flanagan combines rage, humour, epiphanic detail and a kaleidoscope of ironies in a string of 43 vignette-sized wonders, told variously in the voice of men, women and children, but always through the eyes of a Northerner