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Summary: In the Blink of a Literary Eye
Review: Blink and you've missed it. Don't blink. Here is what you will see while your eye remains open, in a quick instant of bright color and imagined sound, or sweet fragrance, just sensed before it is gone, or sudden stink, or a momentary sensation across your skin, like the tickle of a feather, or the flavor of something, something, you can't quite place what, on your tongue that reminds of you someplace, someplace, you've been a very long time ago: "The Burlington Northern, Southbound" by Bruce Holland Rogers...who writes a poem to Christine about the exhiliration of catching a moving train, wind, banged up knee, rhythm, blood rush, and compares it to how he feels about her, and waits for her answer... "Subtotals" by Gregory Burnham... list of totals that comprise a life, nothing but a list, nothing but totals...number of refrigerators I've lived with, 18... number of gray hairs, 4... number of times wished I was dead, 2... number of light bulbs changed, 273... number of times born again, 0... number of times I forgot what I was going to say, 631... "Space" by Mark Strand... a beautiful woman stands at the roof-edge of a highrise building, teetering, readying... and a man on the roof of the next building calls out to her... he calls out hope, a dinner proposal, a promise of better days, a marriage proposal... to this woman he does not know, the wind blowing strands of her dark hair across her lovely face... as he contemplates that space, that space between, him, her, the pavement, life, death... Don't blink. There are 72 of these instant technicolor visions before you can blink again.
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Summary: Short Stories for Intelligent Readers
Review: Bought this book at City Lights in 1992. Finished it that night on a flight to Las Vegas. I liked 90% of the stories. Re-read them yesterday with the same result. Each is about a page and a half. If you don't a story, you haven't lost much of an investment of time, concentration, or movement of lips as you read silently. Fiction with all of the fat trimmed away!
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Summary: Still in print! They're doing something right!
Review: Bought this book at City Lights in 1992. Finished it that night on a flight to Las Vegas. I liked 90% of the stories. Re-read them yesterday with the same result. Each is about a page and a half. If you don't a story, you haven't lost much of an investment of time, concentration, or movement of lips as you read silently. Fiction with all of the fat trimmed away!
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Summary: Fast, Fun, & Furiously Inventive: 75 gem-like tales!
Review: Every practicing artist knows that limitations can be inspiring, and the 75 artists gathered here offer an inspirational look at what can be done in the smallest of spaces. From Spencer Holst's perfect "Brilliant Silence", which opens the collection, through such masterworks as Allan Gurganus's funny-yet-wrenching "A Public Denial" & Bernard Cooper's enigmatic "The Hurricane Ride", to ending with Larry Fondation's eerie "Deportation at Breakfast", there isn't a runt in the litter. Frequently provocative, at times hilarious, and always satisfying, you simply won't get more bang for your book dollar than this anthology. Would-be practitioners of fiction take note: here's all the textbook you'll need. It's got it all: instruction AND delight
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Summary: Imagination
Review: Flash Fiction is a book that realy let you read from many different point of views. you can see the imagination of people and the thoughts they may have about something you may not even consider in that sense. It was fun reading this book. I really enjoyed it. It proved to be more fun than it looks. There have been book with short stores in the past which I got the chance to read, but the emotion was not expressed very much as the authors did in there stories in Flash Fiction.
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Summary: Dreadful collection
Review: I simply can't believe that this collection got such good reviews. Pretty much all the stories are absolutely awful, heavan knows What the authors were on when they wrote them. If you are looking for good writing, plot, characterisation, you wont find it in this collection. If you enjoy mindless, rambling writing, you will find it here in abundance. For me, this book was a complete waste of time and money.
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Summary: THE BEST OF SHORT SHORT ANTHOLOGIES
Review: I was introduced to the genre of short shorts in graduate school and have used them in my classes and enjoyed them at home ever since. The Sudden Fiction anthologies are very good, but this is by far my favorite. My students are sometimes frustrated by the postmodern nature of the short short--they want answers. But after a while, they too are caught up in the excitement that these stories create. Stories such as "I Get Smart," "Snow" and "The One Sitting There" make this purchase more than worth the money.
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Summary: THE BEST OF SHORT SHORT ANTHOLOGIES
Review: I was introduced to the genre of short shorts in graduate school and have used them in my classes and enjoyed them at home ever since. The Sudden Fiction anthologies are very good, but this is by far my favorite. My students are sometimes frustrated by the postmodern nature of the short short--they want answers. But after a while, they too are caught up in the excitement that these stories create. Stories such as "I Get Smart," "Snow" and "The One Sitting There" make this purchase more than worth the money.
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Summary: Short Stories for Intelligent Readers
Review: I've had a copy of this book for years. It's dog-eared, and it's traveled with me when I've gone on trips. The book contains many stories, of varying styles and topics, from many different authors. Because of the brevity of the stories, they take on an odd character, somewhere between stories and poetry, though they are all in prose form. Some, like the beautiful first story "Brilliant Silence," describes the events of many years within two small pages. Others, such as "Gold Coast," captures a small but significant moment in people's lives. There are even some that tell about someone's life through a list. Many of the stories are unusual, and because they are so short, they can be used to fill small moments (such as when waiting for a bus,) or you can take thw whole book, choosing stories to read on a lazy afternoon. I've found myself picking up the book over and over again, and when I've lent it to friends, they've always found at least a few stories that they've enjoyed.For anyone, especially those who are buy but are searching for stories that are touching, funny, realistic, whimsical . . . well, whatever the taste, really, I strongly recommend this book. Also, because of the varied styles, I might even recommend this to student who are studying writing or literature.Happy Reading. :)
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Summary: Short People.
Review: It's daunting to review a book with 75 authors. I would like to give some general remarks.
The shortest story has 185 words ('Water' by Fred Leebron). I gave this book 4 stars instead of 5 because very short stories are not really my cup of tea. I need time to get a grip on the story and the characters and this is difficult for me with a very short story.
There are also a few stories included by foreign writers like Roland Topor, Heinrich Boll and Julio Cortazar. It's a little bit surprising that Sam Shepard is not included. Though he's mainly a playwright, he has some outstanding very short stories.
This collection comes in handy when you like to read something in bed before you go to sleep
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