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se_wigget's review
adventurous
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
This collection of flash fiction—bare bone stories no more than five hundred words each—includes a wide variety of stories that, despite their brevity, have a complete beginning, middle, and end. The stories include (among others): the thoughts of two people who meet in an airplane; an unappreciative husband's karma catching up with him; a divorced couple dining out at a Chinese restaurant; and a mentally unhinged and jealous victim of unrequited love. Oh, yes, a bizarre science fiction story involves characters who are experiencing a disturbing metamorphosis... but I recommend that you take the time to read the book yourself.
alisonjcantrell's review
4.0
Although flash fiction isn’t usually my top choice, I’ve found that You Have Time for This has filled a hole in my reading needs. Since I’m the kind of reader who doesn’t like to be interrupted or put the book down unless I’m at a stopping point—a break in the text or end of a chapter—I don’t often read during the day. With each story under two pages, I was able to fit in reading a story or two during my brief periods of freedom, which was a delight.
Though you’re only given around five hundred words to get to know a character and their world, the lovely, detailed writing in these stories drops the reader firmly in each setting and each character’s actions reveal who they are and their motivations. The topics are so diverse (affairs, suicide, religion, the memory of a favorite aunt) that there’s something for everyone in this collection.
Though you’re only given around five hundred words to get to know a character and their world, the lovely, detailed writing in these stories drops the reader firmly in each setting and each character’s actions reveal who they are and their motivations. The topics are so diverse (affairs, suicide, religion, the memory of a favorite aunt) that there’s something for everyone in this collection.
avitalgadcykman's review
5.0
A lovely anthology of very short fiction, featuring Steve Almond, Aimee Bender, Avital Gad-Cykman...
You Have Time for This: Contemporary American Short-Short Stories (Paperback)
by Mark Budman (Editor), Tom Hazuka (Editor)
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You Have Time for This: Contemporary American Short-Short Stories (Paperback)
by Mark Budman (Editor), Tom Hazuka (Editor)
AMAZON order:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1932010173?ie=UTF8&tag=httpwwwgoodco-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1932010173&SubscriptionId=1MGPYB6YW3HWK55XCGG2
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