Three men on the edge / Michael Loveday.

"Three Men on the Edge is a hybrid novella-in-flash sequence presenting three related story situations. My first full book, it was published by V. Press in 2018 and in 2019 was shortlisted for the Saboteur Best Novella Award. Set in London’s ‘edgelands’, a suburban wilderness neither urban nor rural, Three Men on the Edge unfolds through a series of loosely linked short chapters. Three distinct sequences explore the meaning and value of different forms of relationship, through the daily lives, self-doubts, fantasies, obsessions and disappointments of three troubled men who slip into crisis when they lose connection with the women in their lives. (Denholm – ‘Cause for Alarm’, Gus – ‘The Invisible World’, and Martyn – ‘Chewing Glass’.) Three Men on the Edge is three short novellas-in-flash in one book […] and it blurs the boundaries between fiction and poetry even more so than a typical novella-in-flash, as it moves between short-short stories and prose poems, and the reader conjures the story situation from the gaps in-between each chapter."--From author's website.