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Here Are 70 of The Very Best Short-Short Stories of Recent Years Including Contributions From Such Contemporary Writers As Raymond Carver, Leonard Michaels and John Updike; A Few Modern Masters As Hemingway and Cheever; and An Assortment of Talented New Young Writers. Sudden Fiction Brilliantly Captures The Tremendous Popularity of…
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This groundbreaking anthology helped define flash fiction for American readers.
With contributions from the greats—Ernest Hemingway, Joyce Carol Oates, Grace Paley, Raymond Carver, Tobias Woolf, and more—these tiny narratives often pack the emotional force of a full novel.
A perfect introduction to what flash fiction can achieve when it delivers the whole arc—character, conflict, resolution—in a breath.
From Gail's list on fast fiction that linger longer than novels.
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