Product Description

More than 100 contemporary short short stories of under 350 words, by authors such as Bret Lott, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Michael Martone, Josip Novakovich, Pamela Painter, Scott Russell Sanders, Melanie Rae Thon, Denise Duhamel, William Heyen, Clint McCown and Janice Eidus.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1073014 in Books
• Published on: 2003-04-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

About the Author
Dinty W. Moore is the author of Toothpick Men, The Accidental Buddhist, and The Emperor's Virtual Clothes.

Customer Reviews

Captivating, interesting, and entertaining!
While all the stories are brief, they're not for readers with short attention spans. Many of them are truly sudden. That is, they take you by surprise and give you a new way of looking at the whole idea of "brevity." Let's face it: most of life takes place in tiny moments, and the best stories here capture that to a "t." I give this fine and fun book "only" four stars because some of the pieces don't really seem like fiction but read instead like so-called "creative non-fiction" or the infernal memoir. In any case, buy, read, and enjoy!

once again, the genius of TOM BRADLEY carries an anthology
This whole book is a sheer marvel and delight--and, as usual with the many anthologies in which his uncanny writing appears, the pole star, the capstone, the cynosure of every eye, is TOM BRADLEY'S bit, "Hugh of Provo." In a few dozen words it manages to be horrifying and hilarious, as the little neighbor girl "seeps through the drapes in vaporous form" and reintegrates on Tom's chest, to whisper offputting things in his ear. Dinty Moore is to be congratulated and envied (he will definitely be remembered) for publishing TOM BRADLEY.