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A review by maebinnig
The Best Small Fictions 2015 by Lauren Becker, Jeff Streeby, Blake Kimzey, Lisa Marie Basile, Jane Swan, Seth Brady Tucker, Tara Lynn Masih, Robert Olen Butler, Yennie Cheung, Catherine Moore, Leesa Cross-Smith, Rusty Barnes, Jane Liddle
5.0
Micro-fiction (or "flash fiction") is its own kind of beast, just as difficult in its own way as the novel. Every word counts when a story is only a page long. Done poorly, it's flat and ineffectual. Fortunately, this is a showcase for the genre's standouts, and the stories in this anthology pull no punches.
With 50+ stories by an assortment of acclaimed writers, there's plenty of variety. That means there will probably be some that you don't love ("APOCRYPHAL" just left me scratching my head), but also plenty that make you gasp and re-read.
My favorites: Marriage; Pistols at Twenty Paces; The Boy and the Bear; It Will Never Be Deep Enough.
(I received this book for free through a Goodreads giveaway.)
With 50+ stories by an assortment of acclaimed writers, there's plenty of variety. That means there will probably be some that you don't love ("APOCRYPHAL" just left me scratching my head), but also plenty that make you gasp and re-read.
My favorites: Marriage; Pistols at Twenty Paces; The Boy and the Bear; It Will Never Be Deep Enough.
(I received this book for free through a Goodreads giveaway.)