Whatever: A Gen X Flash Fiction Anthology

by Nicole McInnes

Flash fiction stories by 22 authors from around the world celebrate Generation X (which is made up of people born from about 1965 to about 1980) in this fourth flash fiction collection from Altitude Press. Gen X lived through the existential threat of a nuclear holocaust, the end of the Cold War, the advent of the Trapper Keeper, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the birth of Music Television, collect calls via pay phone, and calling into the local radio station to request (and tape record) our favorite songs. We were told to walk it off, to be home by the time the streetlights came on, to wear our housekeys on strings around our necks, and to never let them see us sweat.
The stories in this collection run the gamut from literary to speculative and from satirical to introspective with different genres and genre blends woven throughout. Balancing themes of tech, the afterlife, and a sort of dystopian view of this second decade of the twenty-first century are stories of hope, humor (that famous Gen X dry wit), and optimism about the present and the future.

182 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 29, 2025