Robert Shapard

James Thomas

An anthology of bite-sized tales represents the work of some of today's best fiction writers and includes Rick Moody's definition of an armoire, Lydia Davis's sojourn into the world of cats, and Dave Eggers's exploration of narrow escapes. Original.

80 Very Short Stories

Flash Fiction Forward

Short-short Stories from America and Beyond

New Sudden Fiction

Christopher Merrill

This brilliant new anthology collects 86 of the most beautiful, provocative and moving flash fiction narratives, which are very short stories usually no more than 750 words, from around the world that challenge readers to expand their horizons and celebrate both the local and universal. Original.

Very Short Stories from Around the World

Flash Fiction International

Gathers seventy stories by Paley, Hannah, Barthelme, Cheever, Updike, Tallent, Carver, Boyle, Williams, Oates, Hemingway, and Malamud

American Short-short Stories

Sudden Fiction

A dazzling new anthology of the very best very short fiction from around the world. What is a flash fiction called in other countries? In Latin America it is a micro, in Denmark kortprosa, in Bulgaria mikro razkaz. These short shorts, usually no more than 750 words, range from linear narratives to the more unusual: stories based on mathematical forms, a paragraph-length novel, a scientific report on volcanic fireflies that proliferate in nightclubs. Flash has always—and everywhere—been a form of experiment, of possibility. A new entry in the lauded Flash and Sudden Fiction anthologies, this collection includes 86 of the most beautiful, provocative, and moving narratives by authors from six continents, including best-selling writer Etgar Keret, Zimbabwean writer Petina Gappah, Korean screenwriter Kim Young-ha, Nobel Prize winner Czeslaw Milosz, and Argentinian “Queen of the Microstory” Ana María Shua, among many others. These brilliantly chosen stories challenge readers to widen their vision and celebrate both the local and the universal.

Flash Fiction International: Very Short Stories from Around the World

Following the recent popular success of Sudden Fiction, this volume enters new realms to gather more than fifty of the best and most compelling short stories--each complete and no more than five pages--from all over the world.

Sixty Short-short Stories

Sudden Fiction International

Josip Novakovich

These stories by immigrant writers remind us that in a way we are all immigrants.

Stories in the Stepmother Tongue

Ray González

A collection of short-short works includes contributions by top U.S. Latino and Latin American authors, including Junot Dâiaz, Sandra Cisneros, Isabel Allende, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcâia Mâarquez, and Roberto Bolaäno.

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