Flash in the Attic 2: 44 Flash Fictions from Fiction Attic Press

by Fiction Attic Press, Elizabeth Varadan (Contributor)

Featuring 44 flash fictions under 1,000 words from new and established writers. In this volume, you'll find stories about the complexities of love and the nuances of marriage, stories about strange worlds and impossible places, stories about slippery identities and shifting alliances, stories both political and personal. There also happens to be a surprising number of stories about crimes of one kind or another. And then there are those that, above all, make the normal seem strange or the strange seem normal. Every story is a world unto itself. a must-read for anyone who loves flash fiction, and and an essential companion for writers who want to pen their own flash fictions.

A follow-up to Flash in the Attic: 33 Very Short Stories.

140 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 1, 2016

About the author

Fiction Attic Press is a small, independent publisher based in Northern California. Fiction Attic is dedicated to discovering and promoting innovative fiction, flash fiction, and memoir by emerging writers. Home of the annual Flash in the Attic Contest, Short Memoir Contest, and a series of informative and inspiring workbooks for writers.

Reviews

[David Rodeback · Rating 4 out of 5]

This collection of 44 very short stories by as many authors (if I’m not mistaken) started slowly but kept me reading. It’s all flash fiction, stories only 1,000 words long, if not much less, so if you don’t like one, you’ll be done with it in two or three pages anyway.

My initial impression was that too many of the stories were trying to be too literary, too subtle, too ambiguous, too meaningful. But that faded as I kept reading. They are widely varied in style and subject, and I enjoyed most of them.

I read this book for research too, because I also write short stories, including some flash fiction. It’s a fun challenge, besides being a useful exercise for a writer of longer fiction.