A review by elizabethjstewart
Best Microfiction 2019 by Gary Fincke, Dan Chaon, Meg Pokrass

3.0

Microfiction or flash fiction isn't something I'd ever come across before stumbling across this on Netgalley, this is a compilation of over 80 pieces, so perfect as an introduction to the format, there's such a variety of authors, genres and topics that there should be something in here for everyone. As with most compilations there were some I really liked and some I skimmed through; one of the plus sides of microfiction is that if you find yourself not enjoying a piece as much then you won't be wasting much time on it as each is around the 400 word mark. I found them to be a bit deceptive into how much time I could spend reading them; with the author using such a small amount of text to put their character or premise across so much is open for the reader to world build and draw their own conclusions which makes its quite possible that different people will have very different reading experiences. I don't think that personally this format is really for me but I'm glad to have had the opportunity to read this and if you enjoy shorter pieces of writing then this collection is definitely worth a go.