Flash in the Attic: 33 Very Short Stories
Featuring 33 stories under 1,000 words by the winners of the Flash in the Attic Flash Fiction Contest. The very brief stories in this volume, by turns playful, provocative, poignant, fantastical, fearless, and wildly imaginative, prove just how much can be accomplished in 1,000 words or fewer. As it turns out, 1,000 words is plenty of room to make a scene, get people in trouble, get them out of it, or parse language one letter at a time, as Sharon Goldberg does in “Rear-End Collisions,” which took second place. 1,000 words is also enough room for the dead to visit the living on a subway car bound for Brooklyn, for fathers to lose the hearts of their daughters, and for the sun to threaten the future of the earth. Neal Allen’s winning story, “The Mayan Calendar,” proves that 1,000 words is sufficient to span the history of civilization.
ISBN: 978–0–9911499–1–9 (digital edition)
