num_pages: 152
description: Family dinner somehow becomes more mundane after Uncle Colin does a fatal face plant into the plum pudding. A lonely old widower sits at home and participates in conversations he records whilst riding the bus. Curled up like a comma a woman lies in bed and remembers the exclamation-mark man her partner once was.These brief vivid glimpses into the lives of others lay bare the ugliness and absurdity  but also the beauty  of existence. In his flash fictions Gary Duncan explores what it means to be human with insight compassion and humour.
language: English
title: You're Not Supposed to Cry
publisher: Vagabond Voices