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Why read the Flashman Papers today? (opens the original)
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I may be surreptitiously writing an unauthorised Flashman novel in addition to everything else I claim to be writing. This piece was published on the Meanjin website on 30 January 2018. I haven’t edited it but for a comma or two.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!a18
The mercenary, or: Career’s end (opens the original)
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This piece, which was written in 2022, was my first attempt at short fiction since 2014. It looks forward, albeit through squinted eyes, at ‘Zheravna’. It was published, in a slightly-edited form and under a different title, on the apparently discontinued newsletter of the Beyond the Zero podcast in 2024.</
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