Flash Fiction: 72 Very Short Stories

by Hazuka, Tom; Thomas, Denise; Thomas, James

• ISBN13: 9780393308839
• ISBN10: 0393308839
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-07-17
• Publisher: W W NORTON & CO

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