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Title: Flash Fiction: Very Short Stories by James Thomas, Denise Thomas, Tom Hazuka ISBN: 0-393-30883-9 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: July, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.3 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Still in print! They're doing something right!
Comment: 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!
Rating: 5
Summary: Short Stories for Intelligent Readers
Comment: 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. :)
Rating: 5
Summary: A whole different way to tell stories.
Comment: We've gotten used to the way stories are written - with a beginning, a middle and an end, usually with detailed plot and characterization. The point of these tales is to create something different - a description of a moment of realization, an entire life described through a series of lists, strange tales with twists, showing the estrangement of a couple through bits and pieces of their conversation (and all with so few words!!)
They seem like something between stories and poetry.
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Title: Micro Fiction: An Anthology of Really Short Stories by Jerome Stern ISBN: 0393314324 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 1996 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Sudden Fiction by Robert Shapard, James Thomas ISBN: 0879052651 Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publisher Pub. Date: March, 1987 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Sudden Fiction (Continued): 60 New Short-Short Stories by Robert Shapard, James Thomas ISBN: 0393313425 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Sudden Fiction International: Sixty Short-Short Stories by Robert Shapard, James Thomas ISBN: 0393306135 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: November, 1989 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The World's Shortest Stories: Murder, Love, Horror, Suspense, All This and Much More in the Most Amazing Short Stories Ever Written, Each One Just 55 Words Long by Steve Moss ISBN: 0762403004 Publisher: Running Press Pub. Date: February, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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