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Event
Dirty Water Reading Series: March 16, 2008
by Jennifer Pieroni
03/17/08
A Bunch of People Got Lucky with Quick Fiction at the latest installment of the Dirty Water Reading Series. Sponsored by Quick Fiction, Redivider, Fringe, and Black Ocean, the Dirty Water Reading Series is held quarterly at Grub Street HQ. On Sunday March 16 the editors hosted Get Lucky, a St. Pattys Day Themed reading ... more »
Interview
An Interview with Kathy Fish
by Kelly Spitzer
10/06/07
Kelly Spitzer: You have been writing powerful flash fiction for five years now, in which time your work has been published, or is slated for publication, in Spork, RE:AL, Denver Quarterly, Cranky, and here in Quick Fiction, among numerous other journals. Now you have a chapbook, Laughter, Applause, Laughter, Music, Applause, forthcoming from Rose Metal ... more »
Story from Issue 12
Mine
by Szilvia Molnar
10/02/07
I used to call her My oh my because she was the girl that braided her hair with yours and she was the one that woke up in the morning with grass stains on her ankles and dew on her shoulders. more »
Review
Little Is the New Big: The BPL Celebrates 4,000 Years of Tiny Books
by Kimberly Sanfeliz
06/07/07
Who says size doesn't matter? In the Boston Public Library's current exhibit, "Miniature Books: 4,000 Years of Tiny Treasures, it certaintly does. And the smaller, the better. more »
Fiction
One Word a Day, Five Hundred Days
by Rebecca Donnelly
05/02/07
“You’re making a mistake,” I said. “It’s a waste of time. People want stories that have energy, not ones that are primped and groomed like hothouse flowers.” more »
Fiction
Westminster March
by Anthony Tognazzini
05/02/07
Scott Terreto is second chair clarinet in the school band and I am first chair clarinet and that is why he hates me, I guess—saying, when he whips his Levi’s jacket off the floor after practice, in a voice so loud that everyone can hear, “You’re gonna get it, Tory Haimen,” even though Scott’s parents ... more »
Story from Issue 11
Why I Said No
by Elizabeth Stamford
04/17/07
Your mother was much older than I expected; already shriveled and slippered. In the kitchen, she served us Minute Maid lemonade, which we spiked with Old Grandad when she’d shuffled off for a nap. We drank quickly, swallowing shards of ice. When we’d finished, you took my hand and pulled me out of the back ... more »
Fiction
Spot
by David Schuman
04/04/07
If you were still around, this dog would be named Kokoschka. I have very little doubt of this. You would have wanted a name that reflected your education (Dalton, Brown), your sense of irony (a dog named Kokoschka!), and, secretly, your ambitions (the sheath of drawings under your bed when I first met you, the ... more »
Review
Flash Fiction Forward
by Cara Blue Adams
03/20/07
Flash Fiction Forward: 80 Very Short Stories James Thomas and Robert Shapard, eds. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 2006 237 pp. Trade Paperback. $15.95 more »
Interview
An Interview with Robert Shapard and James Thomas
by Jennifer Pieroni
03/20/07
Jennifer: You two have been working together for well over a decade, compiling six anthologies of very short stories together. What brought you to this work? How did you become an editing team? And what ever attracted you to very short stories? What about them has kept your attention over the years? Robert: James and ... more »