Tiny Fictions are for people with short attention spans and shallow pockets; collections of stories which are compact and easy to get through before you get distracted or bored, perfect for commutes and all the more so as the book in your hands should fit nicely into the back pocket of your jeans, into your handbags, or to be slipped beside your iPhone in whatever it is trendy kids are using these days (this introduction is going to date terribly).