Flash Fiction: 72 Very Short Stories

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Pub. Date: 1992-07-17
Publisher(s): W W NORTON & CO
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Summary

"These stories are not merely flashes in the pan; there's pay dirt here!" #xE2;#x80;#x94;DeWitt Henry, editor of Ploughshares

Table of Contents

Introduction 11(17)
Brilliant Silence
17(2)
Spencer Holst
Pumpkins
19(4)
Francine Prose
The Stones
23(2)
Richard Shelton
The One Sitting There
25(3)
Joanna H. Wos
Crossing Spider Creek
28(3)
Dan O'Brien
The Lampshade Vendor
31(3)
Allen Woodman
Roseville
34(3)
William Heyen
Pendergast's Daughter
37(2)
Lex Williford
Ponderosa
39(2)
Kent Thompson
Gold Coast
41(3)
Stuart Dybek
Mr. Mumsford
44(3)
Larry French
From the Floodlands
47(3)
Adrienne Clasky
A Public Denial
50(3)
Allan Gurganus
232-9979
53(3)
Carol Edelstein
The Father
56(3)
Raymond Carver
Love Poems
59(2)
Lon Otto
Night
61(2)
Bret Lott
Mandy Shupe
63(3)
Kristin Andrychuk
Wedding Night
66(3)
Tom Hawkins
The Appalachian Trail
69(3)
Bruce Eason
Dinner Time
72(3)
Russell Edson
Vision Out of the Corner of One Eye
75(2)
Luisa Valenzuela
I Get Smart
77(4)
Pamela Painter
True Love
81(3)
Don Shea
The Colonel
84(2)
Carolyn Forche
Snow
86(2)
Julia Alvarez
Everything Is Green
88(3)
David Foster Wallace
Draft Horse
91(3)
Michael Delp
Corporal
94(3)
Richard Brautigan
Subtotals
97(3)
Gregory Burnham
Fingers
100(2)
Gary Gildner
Nadine at 35: A Synopsis
102(3)
Jo Sapp
Feeding the Hungry
105(3)
Roland Topor
Dish Night
108(3)
Michael Martone
Grace Period
111(3)
Will Baker
The Haircut
114(3)
Mary Morris
Vines
117(3)
Kenneth Bernard
How to Touch a Bleeding Dog
120(3)
Rod Kessler
Girl
123(3)
Jamaica Kincaid
The Burlington Northern, Soutbbound
126(2)
Bruce Holland Rogers
The Cage
128(3)
Heinrich Boll
The Restraints
131(3)
Robert Hill Long
Blackberries
134(3)
Ellen Hunnicutt
A Continuity of Parks
137(3)
Julio Cortazar
The Paring Knife
140(2)
Michael Oppenheimer
The Widow
142(4)
John Updike
What Happened during the Ice Storm
146(2)
Jim Heynen
Teddy's Canary
148(4)
K. C. Frederick
The Nicest Kid in the Universe
152(3)
Chuck Rosenthal
The Parents
155(2)
Kelly Cherry
Water
157(2)
Fred Leebron
Stockings
159(2)
Tim O'Brien
The Hurricane Ride
161(2)
Bernard Cooper
A Moment in the Sun Field
163(2)
William Brohaugh
The Philosophical Cobbler
165(2)
Scott Russell Sanders
Corners
167(3)
Sheila Barry
Space
170(3)
Mark Strand
Fear: Four Examples
173(3)
Gordon Lish
The Last Parakeet
176(3)
Kate McCorkle
Snapshot, Harvery Cedars: 1948
179(2)
Paul Lisicky
August Evening
181(3)
Joyce Carol Oates
The Factory
184(3)
Mary Dilworth
The Sewers of Salt Lake
187(4)
Francois Camoin
Jane
191(3)
Steven Molen
Offerings
194(4)
Marlene Buono
Bread
198(3)
Margaret Atwood
Yogurt
201(2)
Ronald Wallace
A Chronicler's Sin
203(2)
Pavao Pavlicic
Here
205(4)
S. Friedman
Here's Another Ending
209(2)
Diane Williams
108 John Street
211(2)
Mark Halliday
Deportation at Breakfast
213
Larry Fondation

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