Flash Fiction: 72 Very Short Stories

"These stories are not merely flashes in the pan; there's pay dirt here!" #xE2;#x80;#x94;DeWitt Henry, editor of Ploughshares

Introduction

11

(17)

Brilliant Silence

17

(2)

Spencer Holst

Pumpkins

19

(4)

Francine Prose

The Stones

23

(2)

Richard Shelton

The One Sitting There

25

(3)

Joanna H. Wos

Crossing Spider Creek

28

(3)

Dan O'Brien

The Lampshade Vendor

31

(3)

Allen Woodman

Roseville

34

(3)

William Heyen

Pendergast's Daughter

37

(2)

Lex Williford

Ponderosa

39

(2)

Kent Thompson

Gold Coast

41

(3)

Stuart Dybek

Mr. Mumsford

44

(3)

Larry French

From the Floodlands

47

(3)

Adrienne Clasky

A Public Denial

50

(3)

Allan Gurganus

232-9979

53

(3)

Carol Edelstein

The Father

56

(3)

Raymond Carver

Love Poems

59

(2)

Lon Otto

Night

61

(2)

Bret Lott

Mandy Shupe

63

(3)

Kristin Andrychuk

Wedding Night

66

(3)

Tom Hawkins

The Appalachian Trail

69

(3)

Bruce Eason

Dinner Time

72

(3)

Russell Edson

Vision Out of the Corner of One Eye

75

(2)

Luisa Valenzuela

I Get Smart

77

(4)

Pamela Painter

True Love

81

(3)

Don Shea

The Colonel

84

(2)

Carolyn Forche

Snow

86

(2)

Julia Alvarez

Everything Is Green

88

(3)

David Foster Wallace

Draft Horse

91

(3)

Michael Delp

Corporal

94

(3)

Richard Brautigan

Subtotals

97

(3)

Gregory Burnham

Fingers

100

(2)

Gary Gildner

Nadine at 35: A Synopsis

102

(3)

Jo Sapp

Feeding the Hungry

105

(3)

Roland Topor

Dish Night

108

(3)

Michael Martone

Grace Period

111

(3)

Will Baker

The Haircut

114

(3)

Mary Morris

Vines

117

(3)

Kenneth Bernard

How to Touch a Bleeding Dog

120

(3)

Rod Kessler

Girl

123

(3)

Jamaica Kincaid

The Burlington Northern, Soutbbound

126

(2)

Bruce Holland Rogers

The Cage

128

(3)

Heinrich Boll

The Restraints

131

(3)

Robert Hill Long

Blackberries

134

(3)

Ellen Hunnicutt

A Continuity of Parks

137

(3)

Julio Cortazar

The Paring Knife

140

(2)

Michael Oppenheimer

The Widow

142

(4)

John Updike

What Happened during the Ice Storm

146

(2)

Jim Heynen

Teddy's Canary

148

(4)

K. C. Frederick

The Nicest Kid in the Universe

152

(3)

Chuck Rosenthal

The Parents

155

(2)

Kelly Cherry

Water

157

(2)

Fred Leebron

Stockings

159

(2)

Tim O'Brien

The Hurricane Ride

161

(2)

Bernard Cooper

A Moment in the Sun Field

163

(2)

William Brohaugh

The Philosophical Cobbler

165

(2)

Scott Russell Sanders

Corners

167

(3)

Sheila Barry

Space

170

(3)

Mark Strand

Fear: Four Examples

173

(3)

Gordon Lish

The Last Parakeet

176

(3)

Kate McCorkle

Snapshot, Harvery Cedars: 1948

179

(2)

Paul Lisicky

August Evening

181

(3)

Joyce Carol Oates

The Factory

184

(3)

Mary Dilworth

The Sewers of Salt Lake

187

(4)

Francois Camoin

Jane

191

(3)

Steven Molen

Offerings

194

(4)

Marlene Buono

Bread

198

(3)

Margaret Atwood

Yogurt

201

(2)

Ronald Wallace

A Chronicler's Sin

203

(2)

Pavao Pavlicic

Here

205

(4)

S. Friedman

Here's Another Ending

209

(2)

Diane Williams

108 John Street

211

(2)

Mark Halliday

Deportation at Breakfast

213

Larry Fondation

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