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How much story can fit in 50 words? Hold Still Fast, a collection of 200 stories 50 words and under, explores how far the shortest fiction can travel with the fewest words possible.

Whistler's Mother's Son collects over 100 prose pieces of varying length and styles-from minimalism to satire to noir to children's tale to abstraction to surrealism. The cast of characters includes Hamlet, Gertrude Stein, Fred Flintstone, Mr. Mondrian, a man with two mustaches, and an eternally confused Peter Cherches.

Across The Street From The Ordinary is a collection of recent short fiction. The stories here move through a wide variety of settings, characters, narratives - all not quite conventional.

The sixth collection of flash fictions from Meg Pokrass represents best in class of the short literary form.

"Let Me Tell You How It Isn't" follows the life of 22-year-old Justin Murphy as he searches for his estranged Lebanese father through London. Raised primarily by his Irish Catholic grandparents in Los Angeles, Justin struggles to identify with a Middle Eastern heritage he knows little about and refuses to accept. As a result, he embarks on a booze-fueled journey of self-discovery-but he isn't alone. His Jain girlfriend-a vociferous critic of his drinking-is along for the ride that leads them across Europe and down into the depths of their own relationship."Let Me Tell You How It Isn't" is the story of a young man's internal and familial struggle between Middle East and Far West in a "secondary security screening" world. It is a story of culture clash, identity, and love, all of which can tear a family apart and bring them back together.

The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer. Co-edited by award-winning microfiction writer/editor Meg Pokrass, and Flannery O'Connor Prize-winning author Gary Fincke, the anthology features the well-known novelist and short story writer Dan Chaon serving as final judge, an exclusive craft-oriented interview with the great Etgar Keret, and an essay about the current state of microfiction written by Robert Scotellaro. The inaugural edition, Best Microfiction 2019, features eighty seven of the world's best very short stories.

An emotional fiction set on a rural lake in Maine, "Layla and the Lake" explores a labyrinth of faulty ethics, expectations, and boundaries as Layla struggles to mend her messy life and protect her children's future.

Verse fragments and collages describing the Typewriter Underground, a spontaneous sub-cultural phenomenon that appeared with near simultaneity in a variety of cities across the globe in the late 20th and early 21st Century. The Commedia, commonly referred to as "Felt's First Folio," offers a lively picture of life in this subterranean community.

Unfortunately, Thanks for Everything is a collection of poems which follow the bicycle paths, travels, and familial challenges that have shaped the poet. T. Anders Carson's style of conveying the banal into fortitude, mini vignettes into insightful shortcomings and the brazen writing of one who is not afraid. It is a testimony to the will and strength of daily challenges that he sees when facing the mirror. These poems reflect the risk of exposing not only his autumnal trust in mankind but also the stratospheric darkness that befits those who have been exposed to suicide and orphaned young. His work does not shy away from head on hits. The blows are explosive and barren. He ventures into the mined fields working his magic words and finding that 3:00 am solace that carries until the dawn. He is a firm believer on the sun rising on us all.

"Garden Prayers: Winter" is a collection of 20 drawings made at the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden in Claremont, California. These are "conversations with the living things in this living place," says artist T.M. Givens.

Life and death in a baby-boom family: a GI father betrayed by his wife; adored, despised, then ill and at the mercies of a conflicted son.

"A nonlinear look at aspects of California history, Hier and Brantingham explore topics including the geologic past, the age of the mastodons, early Native Americans presence, and the present age"--

In this sequel to 2016's "Right of Capture," Judge and Roan discover new instincts-and new horrors-along a path that leads them to a Mandan reservation, where booming oil and gas operations are the perfect cover for Dimond's newest industrial project. To save millions of lives, Roan and Judge must stop him.

Compilation of newspaper columns published in the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (Ontario, Calif.) from 2001-2005

Similarity, relationship, and comparison thread this new collection by Anaheim Poet Laureate and Prize Americana-winning author, Grant Hier. This collection is thoughtful, well-wrought poetry that simultaneously connects the unexpected and reveals to us places of resonance.

"The Lonely Young and the Lonely Old" is a collection of lyrical fictions. Told in the words of unnamed narrators, each story gives voice to the easily dismissed, speaks from the center of an almost paralyzed intensity, desperately searching for articulation and belonging, beautifully capturing simplicity and generosity with poetic brilliance.

In these poems, tales told by multiple narrators, wayfarers move through a sparsely populated terrain, finding hardship, beauty, peril, the ineffable. Some are escaping events beyond their control, some choose to roam, and others stay in place, delving into the interior landscape.

With dark humor, the recurring characters in Roberta Allen's stories see themselves and others through distorting mirrors. The pain of never quite connecting is thrown into shadow as they go about their everyday lives and try to recapture their youth.

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These Footprints in Wet Cement are just that: stories some experienced, some homespun, some dredged from the fertile detritus of dreams; impressions gathered and ruminations fermented over the past decade or so. Straddling the tenuous borderline between the narrative and the poetic, they are all the product of a pressed aesthetic.

Once upon a time in a faraway land, an heir to the throne was born. The King has a son to follow in his footsteps. But life might not be quite as it appears for this Royal Family. All will be revealed on their child's 16th birthday. Family love triumphs over doubt and together they grow stronger.Join this Royal Family on the path to discovery, acceptance and celebration.

The Anarchist's Girlfriend was developed in the art bars of late 1970's New York. Inspired by Dostoyevsky's divine "Idiot," the AG is a clairvoyant Brooklyn Go-Go Girl who designs clothes of the future. Delightfully retro and powerfully prescient, the novel satirizes New York's bohemian underground and the America of any time.

The poems in Surf Music are all pretty short, and some of them are funny. Their subjects include being at the beach, encounters with plants & animals large and small, rain, machines, rocks, and sunlight.