Long Story Short: Flash Fiction by Sixty-five of North Carolina's Finest Writers
"They are addictive, these little stories. Finish one, and you want to dive into the next."--Charlotte Observer"Extraordinary voices. . . . The best of these stories delight, shock and mystify but often require a retracing of steps, a closer look--with each rereading deepening our understanding."--Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionAnOxford AmericanEditors' Pick"[Gingher is] a teacher and a writer who passes the torch."--Durham Herald-Sun"A concise, comprehensive, and compulsively readable collection of short-short stories. . . . Timely."—Art & Literature: the Literary Blog of Metro Magazine"The beauty of this collection is that even the longest short short can be read in 10 minutes. . . . A superb collection. Try writing a short short, and when you despair, just pick up and admire 'Long Story Short.'"--Fayetteville Observer"Never mind that no piece extends beyond 1,800 words--these chiseled diminutives somehow scale up, and the reader feels satisfied."--Our State