Some of the stories are okay. A couple are good. An unusual preponderance struck me derivative, boring, and/or pretentious. It bothered me that the publisher tried to present this volume as doing something new and important when it is not. At all. "Reinterpreting" fairy tales as coming-of-age storie...
Certainly everything it advertises to be, 'Flash Fiction' compiles the best of the briefest of short stories by some of the top writers in the field. In the short amount of time that they have, the stories pack a lot of punch and have some powerful imagery that probably wouldn't sustain itself in a ...
There is a misnomer on the cover of this book. Some short stories in this volume have not been commissioned for the book. Several of them have appeared in various magazines and collections (some have appeared over a decade ago).This is okay, for this is the first time that they are all collected t...
Need I write anything at all? Simply look at the authors collected here - the variety and quality is astounding. Tbe best of what the English language had to offer in literary short fiction from 1970 to 1999. Are all the stories life-changing works of art that will stay with you forever? No, but I g...
I’ve been reading on this book, a dab at a time, all summer. It was the required reading for my personal essay writing class this summer. I went to look for it at B&N and it wasn’t there. I was happy to find I could download it, immediately, on my Kindle. An excellent use of my Kindle, as I could ca...
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