Synopses & Reviews
This collection takes the modern reader on fifty-three literary rides, each one only five hundred words or less. Mark Budman and Tom Hazuka, two of the top names in the genre, have compiled an anthology of mini-worlds are as diverse as the authors who created them.
Contributing writers include Steve Almond, author of My Life in Heavy Metal and Candy-freak; Aimee Bender, author of The Girl in the Flammable Skirt; Robert Boswell, author of five novels including Century's Son; Alex Irvine, author of A Scattering of Jades; L. E. Leone who writes a weekly humorous column about food and life for the San Francisco Bay Guardian; Justine Musk, author of dark-fantasy novels including Blood Angel; Susan O'Neill, writer of nonfiction and fiction with a book of short stories Don’t Mean Nothing; Short Stories of Vietnam; Katharine Weber author of several novels, her most recent is Triangle.
From Buddha to beer, sex to headless angels, there's a story here for everyone. In You Have Time for This you will find:
- Flash fiction from forty-four authors
- Works from across the globe
- Highly regarded authors from all types of genres
- Fresh work from emerging writers
- Fifty-three stand alone pieces that tie the world together
Review
"A really good flash fiction is like a story overheard at a bar — personal, funny, dangerous, and sometimes hard to believe. You Have Time For This distills those qualities and many others into quick tall tales by writers who are as talented as they are magical." Kevin Sampsell, author of Beautiful Blemish
Review
"These contenders for the title of 'world's best short-short stories' are by some of the best micro and flash writers I know of." Robert Shapard, co-editor of New Sudden Fiction and Flash Fiction Forward
Synopsis
Love, death, fantasy, and foreign lands, told with brevity and style by the best writers in the short-short fiction genre. You Have Time for This satiates your craving for fine literature without making a dent in your schedule. This collection takes the modern reader on fifty-three literary rides, each one only five hundred words or less. Mark Budman and Tom Hazuka, two of the top names in the genre, have compiled an anthology of mini-worlds as diverse as the authors who created them.
About the Author
Mark Budman was born and raised in the former Soviet Union. He is the publisher of the flash fiction magazine Vestal Review, which didn't prevent him from getting a patent for a device that allows scents to be transmitted by multimedia. He lives in upstate New York with his wife, two daughters, and one inquisitive male cat.Tom Hazuka teaches in the English Department at Central Connecticut State University.
Table of Contents
Introduction; Mark Budman
Sleeping; Katharine Weber
Reunification; Steve Almond
The Dead; Beverly A. Jackson
Maybe a Superhero; Deb Olin Unferth
Clawd; G. W. Cox
Indian Casino; David Schuman
The Man with the Shovel; Chauna Craig
Parting Ways; Randall DeVallance
The Story of You; Justine Musk
The Dark Side of the Moon; Mark Budman
Homeward Bound; Tom Hazuka
The Argument for a Shotgun; L.E. Leone
Damn Irene; Susan ONeill
Black Silk; Ian Randall Wilson
In Flight; Michelle Richmond
All It Loves; Avital Gad-Cykman
Headless Angel; Tom Hazuka
La Guaca; Daniel A. Olivas
Memento Mori; Susan ONeill
Infarction; Kellie Wells
Buddhas Happy Family Jewels; Vylar Kaftan
Sleep-over; Bonnie Jo Campbell
7:23 p.m.; Sherrie Flick
Exercise; Bruce Taylor
Family Therapy; Pamela Painter
A Room of Frozen Dust; Marge Ballif Simon
Skins on Sule Skerry; Sonya Taaffe
Lamp; Sarah Arellano
Beached; Jessica Treat
Beer and Gunplay; Neno Perrotta
The Illustrated Woman; Pedro Ponce
Nebraska Men; Sherrie Flick
The Diary of a Salaryman; Mark Budman
Snapdragons; Alex Irvine
The House and the Homeowner; L. E. Leone
Rapture; Gayle Brandeis
The Human Pyramid; Neno Perrotta
The House Broods Over Us; Bruce Boston
The Curse of Fat Face; Michael A. Arnzen
The Mouth; Lincoln Michel
Wrong; Aimee Bender
Centerfold; John Briggs
Divadlo; Dave Fromm
On Holiday; Chauna Craig
Gatwick Blues; Kay Sexton
The Lothario; M. J. Rose
What You Can Learn in a Bar; Robert Reynolds
La Luna de los Tres Limones; Steve Frederick
How Could a Mother?; Bruce Holland Rogers
Utilitarianism; Tom Hazuka
Three Soldiers; Bruce Holland Rogers
Skin Deep; Robert Boswell
No Questions Asked; Patrick Weekes