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One of the ways for your new company to reach potential investors, backers and major customers is by participating in “speed pitching events” where, like speed-dating and elevator speeches, you’ve got only a brief time slot – anywhere from as little as one to minutes to up to ten including Q&A – to make your .

Wry, off-beat, quirky, naughty, witty, absurd, dark, droll, deadpan, dry. Comedies of errors, manners, embarrassments. Repartee, satire, slapstick, farce. And, oh yes, clowns. Funny Bone is an exciting new anthology of sixty flashes by sixty of the world’s leading flashers. It is edited by Peter Blair and Ashley Chantler. Profits go to Comic Relief , a major charity based in the UK, with a vision of a just world, free from poverty.

The sixty authors are: I listen to myself drown in the punctuality of balanced meals and walking on tiptoes. Meg Tuite traces girlhood, young womanhood, and the jealous loyalties of sisterhood through a series of ‘magpie moments’ that are often darkly funny — featuring inedible meatloaf, sloughed skin, mysterious boy-bodies, insurgent underwear, speed-dating with attitude, the street-stomping antics of a wannabe band, and an unnerving collector of American Girl dolls.

But the comic coping strategies of children licking walls, ingesting gym socks, humping stuffed animals have chronic counterparts in those of adults alcoholism, prescription drugs. Fresh words and ideas run through all of these flashes, as Tuite cuts to the heart of what matters.