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Flash Fiction Forward: 80 Very Short Stories Robert Shapard
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.

What I'm Reading: Flash Fiction Forward. They're poignant, funny, Though flash fiction hardly requires the character development and careful plotting of a full-length novel, or even a short story, the effect can be equally powerful, and actually more difficult to evoke. A fun little page, there's trivia, I look forward to Sittenfeld's stories every week. Until recently (enough) when the Magazine underwent a massive redesign and up popped the “One-Page Magazine” feature in the very front. Description: The eagerly anticipated anthology from the editors who coined the term "Flash," with stories by today's best fiction writers. Her short fiction has appeared in Painted Bride Quarterly, Shenandoah , Mississippi Review, Prime Number Magazine, Flash Fiction Forward (Norton), The Great Books Foundation Short Story Omnibus, and other journals and anthologies. I have a confession to make: for the last four years I've been asking my short story students at City to write stories of exactly 100 words (“drabbles”) as an exercise, yet I rarely write flash fiction (under 1000 words) myself. January 05, 2007 03:30 PM UTC (Updated: January 05, 2007 03:47 PM UTC). In essence, a flash fiction is a very short short story, the classic example being attributed to Ernest Hemingway: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” It also can be written in a flash. And it will never go away, because what short stories are very good at is simply existing, despite not having the Life—the humanity-saving gravitas—assigned so capriciously to the Novel. I LOVE A PARADE ~This poem originally appeared in Tar River (2009) She knows a spoonful of religion. The Plush “In the shadows a bad #41: Four Poems by Michelle Boisseau.