Bang Crunch by Neil Smith (Vintage 2007) offers an array of short stories where the average smash their way into the unusual. Smith writes in a compressed style giving the reader everything they need to peek into his world and try to squeeze back out again. In these nine stories we witness the idiosyncratic nature of all kinds of people, but quickly realize by looking in the mirror, it could be any of us. The we too have our own self-rationalized journeys into the oddities of life. That we are not always observers but active participants in the absurd.
New Sudden Fiction Short-Short Stories form America and Beyond edited by Robert Shapard and James Thomas. (Norton 2007) These selections have been culled from previously published works, from journals, magazines and books. Over 60 flash fiction pieces ranging from Joyce Carol Oates, Chuck Palahniuk and an all-cast eclectic array of other writers. The stories are varied and offer a great cross section of this genre.
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