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If the part of you that caused self-doubt had a face, would you recognize it? If your tendency to self-destruct had a name, would you know it? Told with humor, empathy and a driving narrative, Mountain Lion Blues is a surreal, dark comedy about the obstacles we place in our way that keep us from the love, success and well-being we've been taught since childhood are ours to expect. Part absurdist love story and part existential noir, Mountain Lion Blues speaks to the mountain lion-sized hole in all of us.

The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer. Co-edited by award-winning microfiction writer/editor Meg Pokrass, and Flannery O'Connor Prize-winning author Gary Fincke, this edition features Deb Olin Unferth serving as final judge, four essays & other insights, and eighty-three of the world's best very short short stories.

Bodies in Recline explores the full range of human emotions and behavior in a style imbued with profound irony and deep humor, with an inclination toward the latter. Powerfully imagined, the pensees in this collection will take the reader on a sojourn across landscapes both exotic and familiar. Bodies in Recline demonstrates the full reach of the author's imagination and creative powers. Keith brings to the reader a singular collection of idiosyncratic and laconic narratives designed to fully engage and provoke. The epigrammatic tales between these covers provide a sometimes numinous often harrowing account of what we do and what we think and what we think we should do.

Other Places, Other Times is a collection of twenty-six historical fictions. Thirteen of the stories are about Chen Hsi-wei, an imaginary peasant/poet of the Sui period, circa 600 C.E.As a boy, Hsi-wei served the emperor on a perilous mission. He turned down the offer of material rewards in favor of an education which made him a poet. Hsi-wei travels the empire making straw sandals and verses. The narratives account for Hsi-wei's poems, which are also included.The other thirteen stories are set in various times and locations, from post-war England to Renaissance Italy, Paris in the Fifties to post-war Germany, South America in the sixteenth century to Hesse in the mid-nineteenth, Ruthenia in the seventeenth, and the American West after the Civil War.

In the appropriately titled The Corridors of Longing, a wide variety of otherwise ordinary people anxiously face crucial choices. Personal trauma, anger, frustration, sexual desire, cultural shifts, work, and an assortment of other common issues are deepened and made singular, even in these very short stories, by the sharp focus of close observation.In settings and situations that range from mid-20th century to the present, fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, friends and enemies alike are given unique voices. The heart of each story is found quickly and followed until something beyond the apparently familiar is made surprising, yet genuine. Despite their imperfections, the characters, through their struggles with understanding, reach moments of tolerance and sometimes, through perseverance, obtain compassion and even love.Above all, despite how brief these stories are, they are nuanced and subtle. Instead of heroes and villains, there are characters who are complicated, with few exceptions, in less than a thousand words. In other words, they carry the weight of being human with varying degrees of success and failure. In other words, they are alive and demand our attention and respect.

From the entangled cosmos to our present quickening calamity, the central concern of Diminuendo is the making and unmaking of the world. The poems follow celebration -What keeps us earth lifehandful of sweet notes hiddenthrush- with lament - Latecomerswe believe it was all madefor us misunderstandthe nature of give and take. We live in uncertainty, "between earth and sky ever- / cycling despair and hope." Despite - or because of - this foreboding, Moore seeks to view the natural world in and of itself, beyond its relationship to humans. This work conceives a realm in which distinctions between animate and inanimate diminish and the boundary between physical and spiritual dissolves.

"A king who seeks to keep his kingdom safe and immaculate orders the destruction of a flower that he regards as pernicious weed, but soon finds that he has awakened the dragon who sleeps beneath a nearby mountain. The dragon takes her revenge on the king by eating his favorite horse and turning his firstborn son into a monkey. The king's angry reaction to this sets in motion a chain of events that will destroy his kingdom and scatter its people in all directions. In the midst of these events the young monkey will discover the pain of loss, the joy of love, and the secret of who he is"--

The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer. Co-edited by award-winning microfiction writer/editor Meg Pokrass, and Flannery O'Connor Prize-winning author Gary Fincke, the anthology features Tania Hershman serving as final judge, and eighty of the world's best very short short stories.

A king who seeks to keep his kingdom safe and immaculate orders the destruction of a flower that he regards as pernicious weed, but soon finds that he has awakened the dragon who sleeps beneath a nearby mountain. The dragon takes her revenge on the king by eating his favorite horse and turning his firstborn son into a monkey. The king''s angry reaction to this sets in motion a chain of events that will destroy his kingdom and scatter its people in all directions. In the midst of these events the young monkey will discover the pain of loss, the joy of love, and the secret of who he is.

Contains virtually everything David Allen has penned about the Los Angeles County Fair from 1998 to 2021 for the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin. It includes stories of people, attractions, concert lineups, pricing, sights, sounds and smells.

The House of Grana Padano is a collection of tragi-comic, fabulist microfiction by two modern masters of the form, each story a world unto itself.

Joe, a sixteen-year-old puppet playwriter, has a near-death experience and is not met at the Pearly Gates by his hero, Jesus. This darkly humorous, full-color volume features vibrant artwork, stylized typography, and a compelling back story.

34 conversations with self-reliant, self-employed, and otherwise self-motivated musicians, technicians, and artists. "Self Empunishment" by Brian Walsby, beautifully illustrated by the author and featuring an introduction by Bob Durkee, presents this series of interviews in one densely-packed, story-filled volume.

"Garden Prayers: Fall" is the fourth collection of drawings made at the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden (now the California Botanic Garden) in Claremont and in Upland, California. As artist T.M. Givens states, "I think I've been producing a self-help book... you know, one that just comes alive or makes you come alive as you read it."

"Garden Prayers: Summer" is the third collection of drawings made primarily at the Botanic Garden in Claremont. These are, as artist T.M. Givens states, "still based on the idea that they are prayers ... what about if I don't have enough good words to let you know what I believe or that I'm thinking ... can you understand that well enough?"

Kendall Johnson served as traumatic stress consultant to emergency service agencies and the military for twenty-five years. Chaos and Ash records one consultant's views from the inside of some of the largest critical incidents.

"Garden Prayers: Spring" is the second collection of drawings made at the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden in Claremont and in Cambria, California. These are "still part of the meditation I experience while looking at or experiencing or talking to or wondering about or thinking of these living places," says artist T.M. Givens.

The Best Microfiction series provides recognition for outstanding stories of 400 words or fewer. Co-edited by Meg Pokrass, and Gary Fincke, this edition features acclaimed author Michael Martone serving as final judge.

100 cassettes take the reader through a series of impressions of possible music releases over the last fifty years through the eyes of musician/label owner Dennis Callaci.

First published in 1991 comprising short short fictions most written in the eighties, A Modern Way to Die, by Peter Wortsman, "predates the in-vogue term flash fiction, but it's surely one of the cornerstones of the tradition," (according to short form pioneer Pete Cherches).

How much story can fit in 50 words? Hold Still Fast, a collection of 200 stories 50 words and under, explores how far the shortest fiction can travel with the fewest words possible.

Whistler's Mother's Son collects over 100 prose pieces of varying length and styles-from minimalism to satire to noir to children's tale to abstraction to surrealism. The cast of characters includes Hamlet, Gertrude Stein, Fred Flintstone, Mr. Mondrian, a man with two mustaches, and an eternally confused Peter Cherches.

Across The Street From The Ordinary is a collection of recent short fiction. The stories here move through a wide variety of settings, characters, narratives - all not quite conventional.

The sixth collection of flash fictions from Meg Pokrass represents best in class of the short literary form.

"Let Me Tell You How It Isn't" follows the life of 22-year-old Justin Murphy as he searches for his estranged Lebanese father through London. Raised primarily by his Irish Catholic grandparents in Los Angeles, Justin struggles to identify with a Middle Eastern heritage he knows little about and refuses to accept. As a result, he embarks on a booze-fueled journey of self-discovery-but he isn't alone. His Jain girlfriend-a vociferous critic of his drinking-is along for the ride that leads them across Europe and down into the depths of their own relationship."Let Me Tell You How It Isn't" is the story of a young man's internal and familial struggle between Middle East and Far West in a "secondary security screening" world. It is a story of culture clash, identity, and love, all of which can tear a family apart and bring them back together.