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Jenni has been studying Quick Fiction: 101 Tales, 101 Phrases Every by Scotty Cornfield.
The title of Scotty Cornfield’s first assortment, Quick Fiction: 101 Tales, 101 Phrases Every, actually says all of it. It is a assortment of 101 microfictions, every purportedly precisely 101 phrases lengthy (even I’m not diligent sufficient to verify all of them, however Cornfield says they’re and he looks as if an sincere lad), and all traversing the huge sea of subjects that may be coated in that small span of letters and contours.
Mircofiction, flash fiction, the shortest of brief tales, might be among the many punchiest fiction on the market, and but it may be tough to seek out printed collections like this. Most publishers need some thematic cohesion, a by way of line, within the brief story collections they put out, whereas flash fiction, by nature of the beast and quantity of the tales that should be produced to place sufficient pages collectively for a meaty assortment, isn’t going to have that cohesion. It’s kind that thrives on net boards and in writing workshops, not essentially one that you just see often in print, and but right here Cornfield is, clearly in love with the style and, apparently, planning no less than yet one more quantity of tales, given the truth that this Quick Fiction has “Quantity One” stamped on the prime of the quilt in crimson.
It’s heartening to see. For these of us who admire brevity, and the power to grind in to absolutely the yolk of a narrative, a scene, a second in time, flash fiction is an artform value celebrating. And Cornfield does have fun it, with tales of pleasure and heartbreak and thriller, tales of random happenstance and brutal miscalculation, with all that’s and might be strange in writing.
I need to admit, as an editor, that there are locations the place I ponder if Cornfield is slightly too confined by his 101-word edict. Locations the place the story can be served by reducing a phrase right here, a line there, and thus turn out to be a 95-word story, and simply the little bit tighter for it, however that’s nitpicking at its most interesting. General, Cornfield’s work is sound, punchy, and enjoyable in all of the methods you need flash fiction to be. Search for explicit standouts “I’m a Good Neighbor”, “He Made Work a 4-Letter Phrase”, and “Classes from a Grim Reaper” for a few of this reviewer’s explicit favorites.
4 stars.
In FAST FICTION, you’ll enter a restaurant the place the menu is loaded with nothing however literary appetizers, designed to be rapidly consumed and simply digested. You’ll meet individuals with secrets and techniques and others who wished they knew how one can hold them; characters seeking to actual revenge and others getting their simply desserts when karma calls. Followers of the combo platter will see all of it right here, from the darkish to the darkly comical; the laugh-out-loud humorous to the thought-provoking; providing extra twists and turns than a pretzel—extra ups and downs than a soufflé.
Just like the world of improv, every story has been impressed by a immediate (a single phrase or a phrase) offered by readers. From these easy solutions, the tales evolve. You’ll meet individuals from all walks of life, however they’ll all have no less than one factor in widespread: Your temporary encounter with them can be over in lower than a minute. Welcome to FAST FICTION,the place you’ll discover 101 tales of precisely 101 phrases every. How’s that for symmetry?
