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terpsjas's review
3.0
Meh
Found some to be very good; others, I am still scratching my head to see a story. Maybe other readers will get more out of it.
Found some to be very good; others, I am still scratching my head to see a story. Maybe other readers will get more out of it.
kenningjp's review
5.0
This is the book I've been looking years to find. Writing that encompasses just enough and not enough in such a way that a reader wants more but doesn't really know why. Dry, snarky, depressing, horrifying, etc. All the oddest emotions and sentiments thrown into a single volume consisting of prose pieces shorter than this review.
kevinwkelsey's review
4.0
I'll keep it under 25 words: Lots of them are truly great, some of them are really good. A couple of them are just okay.
carlosernesto's review
4.0
The idea of hint fiction is that by keeping a story at 25 words or less a writer can suggest a larger, complex story in the space of only a few lines. It's an intriguing concept which, if this collection is any indication, is tricky to pull off. Many of the stories either feel like great lines, either as something brilliant to open with or a nice little bit of characterization or plot twist within a novel. I think the collection is best seen as a serious of experiments, with the determination of success or failure left to each individual reader. That not all of these experiments are succesful is understandable given the challenges of hinting at so much by so little.
notjustyna's review
4.0
Some of these were a little disturbing. Others were brilliantly succinct and yet so deep. My favorite is the very first one..."They buried him deep. Again." Wonderful. The thing all of these have in common--and this is the fantastic thing about hint fiction (the term coined for 25-word-or-fewer stories--is that each one HINTS at a more complex plot. You'll read each one and before you know it, you're creating the rest of the story--the characters, the setting, the circumstances that caused THIS piece of hint fiction to be as it is. A quick read and definitely recommended. I feel inspired.
debnanceatreaderbuzz's review
4.0
Here's an example of Hint Fiction, the very first story in the book, a story by Joe R. Lansdale called "The Return": "They buried him deep. Again."
And that's it. The whole story. Isn't that marvelous? The stories in this book flash like a lightning bolt across the sky of your head when you read them. Sometimes there's a little thunder. And rain.
Okay, one more. "The Lover's Regret" by Tess Gerritsen: "They are now grown up, the children I abandoned to be with you. They hate me. But not nearly as much as I hate you."
And that's it. The whole story. Isn't that marvelous? The stories in this book flash like a lightning bolt across the sky of your head when you read them. Sometimes there's a little thunder. And rain.
Okay, one more. "The Lover's Regret" by Tess Gerritsen: "They are now grown up, the children I abandoned to be with you. They hate me. But not nearly as much as I hate you."
bibliocyclist's review
3.0
Ransom
Broke and desperate, I kidnapped myself.
Ransom notes were sent to interested parties. Later, I sent hair and fingernails, too.
They insisted on an ear.
Art Alone Endures
The Art League had a competition for artists to depict the future. By accident Bogdan included a blank canvas among his submissions. It won.
Broke and desperate, I kidnapped myself.
Ransom notes were sent to interested parties. Later, I sent hair and fingernails, too.
They insisted on an ear.
Art Alone Endures
The Art League had a competition for artists to depict the future. By accident Bogdan included a blank canvas among his submissions. It won.