A review by maylingkuo
Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories from the United States and Latin America by Robert Shapard, James Thomas, Ray Gonzalez

3.0

whew, i thought i would never finish this book. it's just under 300 pages, but when each story is 1-4 pages, the math comes out to be a million stories in this book. i should have taken the hint by the title (sudden) but i didn't quite understand how short these stories would be. from the pace of reading it, i would have preferred an occasional 20 page story every now and then, just to make the book feel less abrupt.

the stories themselves were all over the board in terms of how i felt about them. my favorite was 'the back of my own head' by alberto rios, enough to where i'm going to pick up a full length book of his. otherwise, i think i'm going to stick to novels for awhile to feel the satisfaction of getting a full story in.