Flashdogs : Solstice : Light

by Mark A. King (Editor), David Shakes (Editor), Emily June Street (Editor)

The FlashDogs are back with another installment of fierce flash fiction. Walk through our solstice portal and explore an imaginarium where fantasies become reality. Here, age-old conflicts play out in dreamscapes: good against evil, light against dark, the one against the many. Here, even mundane reality has sharp twists and fine edges. In doses of a thousand words or less, the Flashdogs will transfix you with their hard, bright tales of the summer solstice and leave you hungry for more.

234 pages, Paperback

First published June 17, 2015

About the author

Mark A. King was born and raised in London and is from Irish descent .
Metropolitan Dreams, his debut novel, was released in January 2017.
He is passionate about short fiction and has been published in several magazines and anthologies.
King is a founder of FlashDogs, a global community of talented flash fiction writers who have donated the proceeds of their anthologies to global children's literacy charities.
King created the increasingly popular #vss365 hashtag on Twitter to encourage daily short fiction writing, this work has now been taken forward by a team of dedicated volunteers.
His work has been described as gritty and realistic, and reviewers have compared his work to Neil Gaiman and Philip K. Dick.
He is working on Metropolitan Fear, a sequel to Metropolitan Dreams which will be based in New York.
King is honoured to be a British Fantasy Society Emerging Horizons author.
He lives with his family in Norfolk, England.

Reviews

[Emily Street · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Flashdogs are back with more top quality flash fiction. A brief form, flash fiction is hard to do well, but the Flashdogs are some of the best. The diversity of tales in SOLSTICE : LIGHT are a treat for the reader’s imagination. Two photographs and the theme “ Light Solstice” unify the stories, but even so, every story is wildly different, ranging in style from traditional to modern, and varying in tone from humorous to heavy. Several recurrent and enjoyable themes emerged; I was happy to see streaks of feminism and other issues of current relevance running through the stories; quite a few grappled with sexual and gender identity. High points included works by Beth Deitchman, Brian S. Creek, Tamara Shoemaker, Mark A. King, Rebekah Postupak, Holly Geely, and Nancy Chenier. All in all this collection is a fascinating exploration of an up-and-coming style of fiction.