As I come to Day #29 of my Flash Clash reading challenge, I reach another mini milestone – this is the last day in this challenge that I will reading David Gaffney. And that’s because – just as it was with Nik Perring and Etgar Keret – I’ve come to the end of Gaffney’s story collection. I’d like to say that he went out on a high. And with his story, Life Just Bounces Gaffney pretty much did; quite literally. He ended up placing as joint highest scorer for the day, equal with one of the Dan Rhodes’ flash offerings, Support.
So now Gaffney pops off and joins Perring and Keret in the wings, while the challenge drops down to me finishing off reading the collections of the last two authors. On the bright this should ensure that I fly even faster through my daily updates for this challenge, which I’m sure is a bit of godsend for everyone 
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Anyway, here’s a summary of how today’s flash reading went:
| Author | Collection | Story Title | *Comment | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nik Perring |  |
–REVIEW PENDING– | —- | —- |
| Alex Burrett |  |
Arguments for the Decimalisation of the Day | Numerical | Rating:   |
| Etgar Keret |  |
–REVIEW PENDING– | —- | —- |
| **David Gaffney |  |
Think About it Baby Life Just Bounces |
Entertaining Splendid |
Rating: Rating:  |
| ***Dan Rhodes |  |
Stuff Support Sushi |
Dull Amusing Average |
Rating: Rating: Rating: |
*Keeping in the spirit of flash I’m limiting myself to only giving single-word comments for each story.
**As they are incredibly short in length, David Gaffney’s stories are being ‘ticked off’ two at a time.
*** Dan Rhode’s stories are even shorter than Gaffney’s and to ensure that I finish his collection in time, I have to cover three per day.
Inspired by the publication of Nik Perring’s debut flash fiction collection, the Flash Clash Challenge is a fun contest in which
threefour other experts in the field are compared alongside Nik. You can find out more about it HERE.
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