Title: New sudden fiction
Description: Responding to America's love for short-short stories, editors Robert Shapard and James Thomas searched thousands of books and magazines to select these sixty stories-each under 2,000 words, each with its own element of surprise-whether traditional, experimental, humorous, moving, or magical. In the process they discovered both new talents and a wealth of celebrated writers, among them Lan Samantha Chang, Jorge Luis Arzola, Aimee Bender, Romulus Linney, Yann Martel, Teolinda Gersao, Sam Shepard, and Tobias Wolff. Ha Jin narrates the arrest of two jokers by the Chinese state. Zdravka Evtimova conjures blood drops that can cure any disease. Ian Frazier writes public relations for crows. Juan Jose Millas leads an amnesiac husband to a darkened cathedral for a tryst with his own wife. Chuck Palahniuk tries his luck as a hospice escort. These tales told quickly offer pleasures long past their telling. Book jacket

Includes Other Persons   Juan Jose Millas -- A History of Everything, Including You   Jenny Hollowell -- The Raft   Peter Orner -- The Red Fox Fur Coat   Teolinda Gersao --  Loving the Dead   Ronald F. Currie Jr. -- Powder   Tobias Wolff -- Water Names   Lan Samantha Chang -- Berlin Wall Piece   Sam Sheppard --   The Rememberer   Aimee Bender -- Homage   Nadine Gordimer -- Tomorrow's Bird   Ian Frazier --   The Palmist   Andrew Lam -- Blood   Zdravka Evtimova -- Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear   Joyce Carol Gates -- Footnote   Romulus Linney --   We Ate the Children Last   Yann Martel -- My Lawrence   Claudia Smith -- Feeling Good, Feeling Fine   George Garrett -- Pompeii   Leslie Pietrzyk -- Ma, a Memoir -- Lynn Freed   Essential Things   Jorge Luis Arzola -- Seven Pieces of Severance   Robert Olen Butler -- The Wine Doctor   Frederick Adolf Paola -- In Reference to Your Recent Communications   Tessa Brown --   Following the Notes   Pia Z. Ehrhardt -- The Minimalist   Stacey Richter -- I Shot the Sheriff   Toure --

Before the Train and After   Katherine Nolte -- Rosa Blanca   Barry Gifford -- The Puppies   Dean Paschal -- Before and Again   Larissa Amir -- A Bad Joke   Ha Jin -- Consumed   Steve Amick -- Why Men Quit: An Intellectual Inquiry   Benjamin Alire Saenz -- Delicate Touch   Stephanie Waxman --  Country Miles   Robert King -- Scroll   Roy Kesey -- Swimming for Shore   Chrissy Kolaya -- Mud   Geoffrey Forsyth -- Feelers   John Gould --  The Party   Elizabeth Berg --  My Kid's Dog   Ron Hansen -- Power Lines   John McNally --  Incarnations of Burned Children   David Foster Wallace -- Inclusions   Elizabeth McBride --  Good, Brother   Peter Markus --  Reply All   Robin Hemley -- Escort   Chuck Palahniuk -- The Gold Lunch   Ron Carlson -- Doughnut Shops and Doormen   Kimberly Kepa'a Tubania --  A Piece of Sky   Ronald Frame -- Stolen Chocolates   Ursula Hegi -- Juan the Cell Phone Salesman   Deb Olin Unferth -- Nap Time   Tom Franklin --  Audio Tour   Patricia Marx --  Paper Slippers   Leelila Strogov -- Crossroad   Kirk Nesset -- Determinants   Gerald Locklin -- How I Left Ned   Sherrie Flick -- Moscow   Steve Almond
Subjects: American Short stories, Translations into English, Short stories, English Short stories, Fiction, short stories (single author), Authors, American Flash fiction, Flash fiction