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Brief Reviews: Cold Toast by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris
It’s a surprise to find that Kathryn Aldridge-Morris’ stories were not conceived as a collection from the beginning, they are that cohesively tight and interwoven.
Brief Reviews of New or New(ish) Books
…in which NFFR suggests some summer reading for you by Patricia Q. Bidar, Lorette C. Luzajic, Keith J. Powell, and Robert Shapard, with hopefully more recommendations to follow (in the coming dog days).
Trust and Play: Notes on Collaborative Process from NFFR Contributors
New Flash Fiction Review asked this issue’s collaborators for their insights on working together. They responded enthusiastically with remarks on overall process, challenges, about their stories in this issue of NFFR, on achieving a collaborative voice, and more.
Ruminations by Jim Heynen
The rabbit has not told me what her schedule is, but there she is on the backyard lawn every time I step out the door. Nothing remarkable about her. If you’ve seen one cottontail, you’ve seen them all.
Five Prose Poems by Nin Andrews
Duplicity after Henri Michaux “Simplicity” When I was just a young thing, my life was as simple as a sunrise. And as predictable. Day after day I went about doing exactly as I pleased. If I saw a lovely man or women, or beauty in any of its shapes and forms and...
After the Fall by Sherrie Flick and Sam Ligon
Twilight in the garden. Rudy rubbed the tomato plant leaf nearest him and did not call Elaine. Elaine was with Donnie now and Donnie was a philistine, Donnie was a thief. “Donnie came to my house,” Rudy said out loud, “and stole a leg of beef.” Jesus—was it possible...
The Girl In Purple by Bobbie Ann Mason
Near dawn, Dennis Moore saw the iron gate to the courtyard inch open and the wisp of a girl squeeze through, clanging the gate behind her. Two minutes later, on the boardwalk, she halted as if for an invisible dog, then resumed her dog-walker gait. He followed her...