In their second collection of ""flash fiction"" stories-aka ""short shorts""-Thomas and Shapard have pulled together almost 80 works that are consistently swift and powerful, distilling the ...

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Good morning and welcome back to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m Boris Kachka, the books editor at the Los Angeles Times, and I’m in the mood for fiction — lots of it. Fortunately, my TBR ...

Edited by James Thomas, Robert Shapard, and Christopher Merrill. Norton, $15.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-393-34607-7 Flash fiction—short, short stories only several hundred words in length—is ...

Nancy Stohlman has been a fixture in the local literary scene for years – and she’s got a long history with one of the shortest forms. Still, flash fiction is in many ways just coming into its own, so ...