or How Pippa Sandberg Almost Saved the World
by Sylvia Petter
G.U.T. is a novella in flash.
G.U.T. is a novella in flash inspired by my career with the International Telecommunication Union, ITU, Geneva, and the busts located in that building’s basement.
After having lived in Europe for 40 years, I'm now back in Sydney.
Following a career with a Geneva-based UN specialised agency, I completed my PhD in Creative Writing at UNSW and worked for ten years in education research at the University of Vienna. My stories have been published widely and my debut novel, All the Beautiful Liars, was published in 2021 by Eye Books, UK, and has been translated into German and Portuguese. I will be adding my story collection, Mercury Blobs, to my bookshop here. Flash fiction will also be added as well as several novellas in flash. I am currently working on my PhD novel, Ambergris.
- all over the place in the space of a mind - short and shorter stories, sometimes quirky, often dealing with love, death, food and belonging, lies and the possible truths within.
Some of the pieces might make you laugh; others might make you cry.
They will all make you think.
The brilliant stories in Sylvia Petters' Mercury Blobs are sometimes very funny and sometimes very moving, and often, they are both at once, which is one of the best tests of a truly serious writer. Moreover, she is a master of the very short fictional forms that have become a crucial expressive medium of the 21st-century sensibility.
This is a splendid collection from a gifted writer.
— Robert Olen Butler, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain.
