New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction

Product Description An addictive new collection of very short stories curated by Flash Fiction editor James Thomas and microfiction writer Robert Scotellaro. Comprised of 300 words or fewer, microfiction is difficult to write but delightful and absorbing to read. With a foreword from Robert Shapard, coeditor of the Norton flash and sudden fiction anthologies, an afterword by Christopher Merrill, coeditor of Flash Fiction International, an introduction from its venerable editors, and a star-studded table of contents, New Micro is a veritable who’s who of the increasingly popular world of microfiction. Authors include newcomers and established writers alike: Amy Hempel, John Edgar Wideman, Kim Addonizio, Richard Brautigan, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Stuart Dybek, Joyce Carol Oates, and James Tate among them. With 90 authors and 140 stories, New Micro offers a unique reading experience, a chorus of voices both fresh and familiar, real and surreal but always enlightening―distinctive and exceptional pieces of fiction that pulse and resonate, each with its own story to tell. Review "Reading these wonderful tiny fictions is like stealing food from the refrigerator before, or after, dinner. A sublime luxury." ― Frederick Barthelme, New World Writing "These micro fictions violate the laws of geophysics by compressing whole lives / whole worlds / whole heartbreaks into something like diamonds: bright, riven, reflective, edged, wonderful, and hard enough to cut through glass." ― Pam Houston, author of Contents May Have Shifted " New Micro’s quick, bright stories are, like our lives, as brief as lightning in the blinding dark. They offer us essential truth without the inessential facts." ― John Dufresne, author of Flash! Writing the Very Short Story About the Author James Thomas, originator of the Flash Fiction anthologies, has received NEA grants and a Stegner Fellowship. He lives in Xenia, Ohio. Robert Scotellaro is the author of three books of flash and micro fiction, including Bad Motel and Measuring the Distance. He lives in San Francisco.