If you're curious to get a taste, it's available to read online here: Hallucinating, mystery, time-portal - whatever it is, it's a great story in a few short pages. My favorite story, "Till", is such a fascinating concept - it would make a great film! - about a glaciologist who falls into a large crevasse, only to discover an ancient woman frozen in the ice beside him. One story plays on the ice theme as slang for methamphetamines, and another as the icy relations between estranged lovers and family members. Training for Ironman triathlons, as in the quote above from the story "Swim Bike Run", climbing or studying glaciers as in two other favorite stories "Till", and "Glacier". She often uses Fijian characters as storytellers, who find themselves in extreme situations. The stories in Black Ice Matter were the final project for Cole, as she finished her Masters of Creative Writing from the University of Auckland, and they are indeed *creative* writing! Many of the stories share a realistic setting - usually her home of Fiji or New Zealand - and details begin to warp, or "shatter", keeping with the ice theme. ~From "Swim Bike Run" (short story) in BLACK ICE MATTER by Gina Cole, 2016. The memories popping into your head from other times in your life never leave you: they are part of you forever." "The point is she is part of the fabric of my life, and I suppose that’s just how it is.
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