num_pages: 132
description: With This Alone Could Save Us Santino Prinzi has fashioned a collection of small smart fictions that read large. Here is work undergirded by innovation incisive wit and a keen ability to navigate terrain that is personal and at once universal to us all. Robert Scotellaro author of Nothing Is Ever One ThingSantino Prinzi is a word-wizard of the hearta writer who fearlessly excavates uncomfortable secrets. In This Alone Could Save Us Prinzi's first full collection of flash fiction human nature is the subject gentle surrealism the medium. Bizarre yet real funny and crazily sadit's mesmerizing to watch Prinzi's vulnerable characters work to free themselves from life's stickiest webs. Subversive haunting beautifula must-have collection! Meg Pokrass author of Alligators At Night and Series Co-Editor Best Microfiction 2020'This Alone Could Save Us is a richly varied collection of flash fiction. In these compact gems Santino Prinzi makes exquisite use of magic and the surreal but also the quiet evocative gestures of ordinary life. You will find the deliciously unexpected within these pages along with moments of breath-taking stillness. Highly recommended. Kathy Fish Wild Life: Collected Works from 2003-2018Tender poetic and wonderfully surreal Prinzi understands that stories can save us. Powerful flash fiction that lights up the page this is the book we all need right now. It is one for the ages. This stunning collection will stay with you for years.  Angela Readman author of Something Like Breathing and Dont Try This At HomeIn This Alone Could Save Us Santino Prinzi demonstrates his enormous talent for drawing readers into his stories often surprising them with surrealistic touches that appear totally believable and natural. The flash fictions in this impressive collection are widely varied but each story is unmistakably Prinzi. Diane Simmons author of Finding a WayExceptionally engaging closely observed and thought-provoking this collection shows us a flash master at work as he explores the fault lines that crack open under our feet at moments of unplanned change. Seen through his eyes the familiar becomes strange solid becomes unsteady and even the moon loses its faith in humanity so moves on. Sometimes sad sometimes playful always memorable.  Vanessa Gebbie author of The Cowards Tale and five short fiction collections.
language: English
title: This Alone Could Save Us
publisher: Ad Hoc Fiction