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The best of Brevity: twenty groundbreaking years of flash nonfiction
Publisher
Rose Metal Press
Publication Date
2020.
Language
English
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From the Book
The shape emptiness / Brenda Miller
Thumb-sucking girl / Sonja Livingston
The cruelty we delivered : an apology / Ira Sukrungruang
I hoisted them, two drug dealers, I guess that's what they were / Diane Seuss
Wings / Daisy Hernández
Imagining foxes / Brian Doyle
Women these days / Amy Butcher
Forgetting / Abigail Thomas
Poster children / Sandra Gail Lambert
Letter to a future lover / Ander Monson
The birthday place / Rebecca McClanahan
A most dangerous game / Alexis Wiggins
Mother's tongue / Samuel Autman
Wide open spaces / Kathryn Miller
Blood; Quantum / Danielle Geller
Girl fight / Joey Franklin
White lies / Erin Murphy
I remain very sorry for what I did to the little black kitten / Jenny Boully
Shower songs / Brian Trapp
My cousin's backyard / Deborah Taffa
Holy / Lori Jakiela
Fluency / Jamila Osman
Cheekbones / Patricia Park
If you find a mouse on a glue trap / Suzanne Farrell Smith
Lag time / Steven Church
The sloth / Jill Christman
Place / Robert Root
Transgender day of remembrance : a found essay / Torrey Peters
Intro to creative writing / Dani Johannesen
A brief atmospheric future / Matthew Gavin Frank
Counting bats / Thao Thai
Openings / Jennifer Sinor
How to leave a room / Marcia Aldrich
Sunrise / Joe Oestreich
Post-mortem / Traci Brimhall
An Indian in Yoga class : finding imbalance / Rajpreet Heir
Genesi / Bret Lott
The blind prophets of Easter Island / Tessa Fontaine
I go back to Berryman's / Vincent Scarpa
\'in-glish\ / Christina Tang-Bernas
Berfore sunrise / Erika Dreifus
Dropping babies / J.D. Schraffenberger
Solving for X / Pam Durban
So little / Josey Foo
Suspended / Kyle Minor
Fish / Nicole Walker
When a 17-year-old-checkout clerk in small town Michigan hits on me, I think about the girl I loved at 17 / Krys Malcolm Belc
Bear fragments / Christine Byl
Recesses / Mark Stricker
Katy Perry is crooning and won't stop just because I did / Shuly Xóchitl Cawood
Five from Kyrgrgzstan / Jia Tolentino
How to discuss race as a white person / Sam Stokley
Hairy credentials / Nicole Cyris
Alive / Laurie Lynn Drummond
Perdition / Kristen Radtke
Success and prosperity / Bouiyan Chen, translated by Jennie Chia-Hui Chu
Quinto sol / Michelle Otero
Devotion / Sarah J. Lin
Girl/Thing / Anna Vodicka
Ace of spades / Jule Marie Wade
Some space / Michael Martone
An address to my fellow faculty who have asked me to speak about my work / A. Papatya Bucak
Confession / Michelle Valois
Beach city / Jaquira Díaz
On being a trucker / Lia Purpura
How to erase an Arab / Julie Hakim Azzam
Milk for free / Deesha Philyaw
Surrender / Nina Boutsikaris
The salmon / Charlotte Gullick
The things I've lost / Brian Arundel
The farmers' almanac best days for breeding / John A McDermott
All or nothing, self-portrait at twenty-seven / Jill Talbot
Talk big / Lee Martin
Open season / Harrison Candelaria Fletcher
Chronology of the body / Sam Kiss
On the occurrence of March 20, 1981 and on the occurrences of every night after / B.J. Hollars
Meanness / Beverly Donofrio
When we played / Matthew Komatsu
The hear as a torn muscle / Randon Billings Noble
Breathless / Heather Sellers
The domestic apologies / Dustin Parsons
The lunch lady and her three-headed dogs / Sonya Huber
Some things about that day / Debra Marquart
There are distances between us / Roxane Gay.
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9781941628232
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