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|isbn=B0CDZRGT1M

|title=Super Short Stories: Flash Fiction

|author=Mark C Wallfisch

|rating=4.5

|genre=Short Stories

|summary=''Got a minute to be amused, entertained, or challenged?''

''These 100 stories are super short. None is more than 300 words. You can read one in a flash.''

''Some are funny. Some are poignant. All are short.''

Question: how do you review flash fiction? How do you give a flavour of a fully rounded little story if that story is told in fewer than three hundred words? Or do you try to draw out themes from all the flash fictions in a book of them? I don't know! Perhaps we could start by explaining that there really isn't a fixed definition of flash fiction but that for this collection, author Mark C Wallfisch has gone for a three hundred word limit. That's about a single page in your average paperback.

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|author=Rachel Harrison

|genre=Short Stories

|summary=Marsha didn't have an easy ride in life the first time around. She'd been afflicted with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva], a rare disease which turned parts of her body to bone when they were damaged. Finally, she was unable to stand her life any longer and went to Dignitas, the Swiss euthanasia clinic. She'd thought that would be the end, but after cremation, her body went straight to hell and she found herself face-to-face with the devil. And that was when she made the pact. In exchange for details about some of those who had been close to her - their strengths and weaknesses - she would be reborn on the same day to the same parents but would live her life free of disease.

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~~|isbn=150690551X~~

~~|title=Roses in December~~

~~|author=Matthew de Lacey Davidson~~

~~|rating=4~~

~~|genre=Short Stories~~

|summary=''Roses in December'' is a collection of twenty-two short stories. And when I say short, I mean ''short'', with each just a few pages long and some brushing the flash fiction genre, such is the brevity. I think the shorter the story, the harder it is to write and the more difficult the task of engaging, then satisfying, the reader. So it is to the immense credit of Matthew de Lacey Davidson that I sighed in appreciation many times while reading. He has a good sense of which moments of the human experience to capture in order to make the point he wants to make. Some highlights:

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