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100 1 $aBaines, Elizabeth,$eauthor.
245 10 $aUsed to be /$cElizabeth Baines.
264 1 $aCromer :$bSalt Publishing,$c2015.
300 $a126 pages ;$c20 cm
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505 0 $aPt. I. What was, what is. Used to be ; That turbulent stillness ; Looking for the castle ; The relentless pull of gravity ; Clarrie and you ; A matter of light -- pt. II. What may be. Possibility ; The choice chamber ; What do you do if ; Falling ; Where the starlings fly ; Tides or How stories do or don't get told.
520 $aWhat if, in a parallel universe, you made a different choice of lover? What if you've spent your whole life with entirely the wrong idea about your own sister? What do you do if you're trapped in a phone box by a woman who might be a victim, but could have accomplices nearby? What if we're wrong that ghosts come from the past, they come from somewhere else? What if we're only dreaming the life we think we're living? And can your life be changed by a message written by starlings on the sky? In Used to Be, a woman is driven at breakneck speed down a motorway, her life flashing before her, and comes to see that there's never just one story of a life. An eighteenth-century gentleman's certainty is challenged by a strange phenomenon, and a fatality on the line throws into disarray the lives of the passengers of an express train. Black holes and flooding can make us feel that the universe is running away with us and steal our certainty: can we ever say who we are really are? How reliable can memory ever be, and can looking for a ruined castle unlock the secrets of one person's past? Is there ever one real story? In the world of these short fictions, things are rarely what they're first assumed to be. There's always another story lurking somewhere...
650 0 $aShort stories, English.
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