num_pages: 336
description: My Very End of the Universe is a celebration of an increasingly popular genre: the novella-in-flash: a novella built of standalone stories. The novellas in this collectionBetty Superman by Tiff Holland Here Where We Live by Meg Pokrass Shampoo Horns by Aaron Teel Bell and Bargain by Margaret Chapman and The Family Dogs by Chris Bowerare compact and specific yet whole and universal using the flexibility of the form to offer a polyphony of setting and emotion. Accompanying each novella-in-flash is a craft essay by the author making this anthology an ideal text for both entertainment and instruction as well as for use both in the classroom and out. Additionally the editors introduction by Abby Beckel and Kathleen Rooney offers a detailed history and discussion of the evolution of the versatile and hybrid novella-in-flash genre.
language: English
title: My Very End of the Universe: Five Novellas-in-Flash and a Study of the Form
publisher: Rose Metal Press