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Wonderfully visual and visceral flash fiction with lovely art by Cooper Renner. Meg Pokrass is the queen of this form, call it flash fiction, prose poem or whatever. She's got the real goods.
10 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2009
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Meg Pokrass
24 books93 followersMEG POKRASS is the author of "Bird Envy" (bestseller at the Harvard Bookstore, April, 2014) "Here, Where We Live" a novella-in-flash (Rose Metal Press, 2014) and "Damn Sure Right (Press 53, 2011) about which Frederick Barthelme said "Meg Pokrass writes like a brain looking for a body. Wonderful, dark, unforgiving."
Her stories appear in over 200 literary journals and continue to be widely anthologized, most recently in "Flash Fiction International" (W.W.Norton, 2015).
Pokrass' publications include Green Mountains Review, McSweeney's, Green Mountains Review, The Rumpus, PANK, Smokelong Quarterly, Mississippi Review, MidAmerican Review, NANO Fiction, 100-Word Story, The Literarian, storySouth, Failbetter, Gigantic. Meg's humor pieces, co-written with author Bobbie Ann Mason, have recently been showcased in TNB Original Fiction.
She is a multiple Pushcart nominee and her stories have been showcased for Dzanc Books’ Short Story Month and nominated for Best of the Web, Best of the Net, and Wigleaf’s Top 50 [Very] Short Fictions. Meg currently serves as an associate editor for Frederick Barthelme’s New World Writing.
Her stories appear in over 200 literary journals and continue to be widely anthologized, most recently in "Flash Fiction International" (W.W.Norton, 2015).
Pokrass' publications include Green Mountains Review, McSweeney's, Green Mountains Review, The Rumpus, PANK, Smokelong Quarterly, Mississippi Review, MidAmerican Review, NANO Fiction, 100-Word Story, The Literarian, storySouth, Failbetter, Gigantic. Meg's humor pieces, co-written with author Bobbie Ann Mason, have recently been showcased in TNB Original Fiction.
She is a multiple Pushcart nominee and her stories have been showcased for Dzanc Books’ Short Story Month and nominated for Best of the Web, Best of the Net, and Wigleaf’s Top 50 [Very] Short Fictions. Meg currently serves as an associate editor for Frederick Barthelme’s New World Writing.
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January 4, 2010
Terrific debut chap from an emerging talent in the world of flash/micro-fictions. Provocative, wise and somehow despite such small forms full of just the right space to keep you thinking of her characters, their tenacity and spirit for a long time after wards.
December 18, 2009
Wonderfully visual and visceral flash fiction with lovely art. Meg Pokrass is the queen of this form, call it flash fiction, prose poem or whatever. She's got the real goods.
December 26, 2009
An absolutely delicious little chapbook of flash fiction! So inspiring, so crisp, so beautifully done. Don't miss it.
Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews