I Have Not Considered Consequences: Short Stories

by Sherrie Flick

196 pages, Paperback

Published April 15, 2025

About the author

Sherrie Flick’s debut novel RECONSIDERING HAPPINESS is out with University of Nebraska Press (2009). I CALL THIS FLIRTING, her awarding-winning chapbook of flash fiction, was published in 2004 (Flume Press). Her work appears in the anthologies FLASH FICTION FORWARD (Norton) and NEW SUDDEN FICTION (Norton) as well as THE ROSE METAL PRESS FIELD GUIDE TO WRITING FLASH FICTION. A recipient of a PA Council on the Arts grant and residencies from the Ucross Foundation and Atlantic Center for the Arts, she lives in Pittsburgh where she teaches and works as a freelance writer and editor. For 10 years, she served as Artistic Director for the Gist Street Reading Series. www.giststreet.org

Reviews

[Mary Ivanoski · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is funny, charming, thought provoking and fast paced. The seemingly silly recurrence of a bear main character makes deeper, more serious truths about the human condition a little easier to swallow. It’s funnier in a bear suit. Sherrie Flick can paint an entire neighborhood in just a few strokes, and there are dozens of worlds to slip into in this book. Highly recommend, and I’ll be looking for more of her work!

[Robert Nolin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Picked this up at Riverstone Books in Squirrel Hill and read it during the two days it took me to get to Portland, OR. Way out of my comfort zone and I liked it. I'll probably read it again one day soon. I was reminded of The Bear Comes Home, a lot. And that's a good thing.