“My Mother And The Hungarians” by Frankie McMillan

"My mother kept boarders like other people kept chooks or stray dogs. She liked the refugees best with their suitcases ... "

Today, Helen Lowe features "The house on Holloway Street", one of the many intriguing flash fiction (very short stories) that comprise Frankie McMillan's "My Mother And The Hungarians" -- to be published by Canterbury University Press on Friday as part of the WORDChristchurch Writers and Readers' Festival.

"Frankie McMillan," says Lowe, "is unquestionably a maestro of the [flash fiction] art in her ability to capture a universe of human emotion and experience in the literary equivalent of a grain of sand."

To read "The house on Holloway Street" and learn more about the launch and this important new collection, click on: 
“My Mother And The Hungarians” by Frankie McMillan