Flash Bibliography

Allen, Roberta, Fast Fiction: Creating Fiction in Five Minutes (Cincinnati: Story Press, 1997)

Allen, Roberta, The Daughter (Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, 1992)

Almond, Steve, The Evil B. B. Chow and Other Stories (Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin, 2006)

Almond, Steve, My Life in Heavy Metal: Stories (London: Vintage, 2003)

Asimov, Isaac, Martin Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander (eds), 100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories (New York: Avon, 1980)

Atwood, Margaret, Murder in the Dark: Short Fictions and Prose Poems (London: Virago, 1994)

Barnes, Rusty, Breaking It Down (Buffalo, NY: Sunnyoutside, 2007)

Barthelme, Donald, Sixty Stories (London: Penguin, 2003)

Barthelme, Donald, Forty Stories (London: Penguin, 2005)

Beckel, Abigail, and Kathleen Rooney (eds), Brevity and Echo: An Anthology of Short Short Stories (Brookline, Massachusetts: Rose Metal Press, 2006)

Blair, Peter (ed.), That’s Historical: An Anthology of Short Stories and Factual Articles (Chester: Peter Blair, 2008)

Blair, Peter (ed.), It’s About Time: An Anthology of Short Stories and Factual Articles (Chester: Peter Blair, 2009)

Blair, Peter (ed.), Between the Lines: An Anthology of Short Stories and Factual Articles (Chester: Peter Blair, 2010)

Brooks, David, Black Sea (London: Allen and Unwin, 1997)

Budman, Mark, and Tom Hazuka (eds), Best American Flash Fiction of the 21^st Century (Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, 2007)

Budman, Mark, and Tom Hazuka (eds), You Have Time for This: Contemporary American Short-Short Stories (Portland: Ooligan Press, 2007)

Butler, Robert Olen, Severence: Stories (San Francisco: Chronicle, 2008)

Butler, Robert Olen, Intercourse: Stories (San Francisco: Chronicle, 2008)

Buttaci, Salvatore, 200 Shorts (N/P: All Things That Matter Press, 2011)

Chantler, Ashley (ed.), An Anatomy of Chester (Chester: Chester Academic Press, 2007)

Chinquee, Kim, Oh Baby: Flash Fiction and Prose Poetry (Spokane, WA: Ravenna, 2008)

Clapper, David (ed.), SmokeLong Annual: Autumn 2003-Summer 2004 (SmokeLong Quarterly, 2004)

Clapper, David (ed.), SmokeLong Annual: Autumn 2004-Summer 2005 (SmokeLong Quarterly, 2005)

Colen, Elizabeth J., John Jodzio, Tim Jones-Yelvington, Sean Lovelace, and Mary Miller, They Could No Longer Contain Themselves: A Collection of Five Flash Chapbooks (Brookline, Massachusetts: Rose Metal Press, 2011)

Conners, Peter (ed.), PP/FF: An Anthology (Buffalo, NY: Starcherone, 2006)

Courtland, Linda, Somewhere to Turn: Stories (Los Angeles: Brookside Press, 2009)

Crossley-Holland, Kevin, Short! A Book of Very Short Stories (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998)

Crossley-Holland, Kevin, Short Too! A Second Book of Very Short Stories (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011)

David, Jack, and John Redfern (eds), Short Short Stories (New York: ECW Press, 1986)

Davis, Lydia, The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis (London: Hamish Hamilton, 2010)

Donovan, Maria, Tea for Mr Dead: Short Short Stories (Abercynon: Leaf, 2006)

Doran, Phil, Spaghetti Fiction Too: Another Book of Very Short Stories (Cambridge: Garlic Press, 2008)

Dybek, Stuart, Brass Knuckles (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2004)

Dybek, Stuart, The Coast of Chicago (New York: Picador, 2004)

Eagleman, David, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives (Edinburgh: Canongate, 2009)

Eggers, Dave, How We Are Hungry (London: Hamish Hamilton, 2005)

Eggers, Dave, Short Short Stories (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2005)

Eggers, Dave, How the Water Feels to the Fishes (San Francisco: McSweeney’s, 2007)

Fershleiser, Rachel, and Larry Smith (eds), Not Quite What I was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure (New York: Harper Perennial, 2008)

Fershleiser, Rachel, and Larry Smith (eds), One Life. Six Words. What’s Yours? (London: Harper Press, 2008)

Fershleiser, Rachel, and Larry Smith (eds), Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak (New York: Harper Perennial, 2009)

Fles, Barthold (ed.), The Best Short Short Stories from Collier’s (Cleveland and New York: Forum Books, The World Publishing Company, 1948)

Flick, Sherrie, I Call This Flirting (Chico, California: Flume Press, 2004)

Fuller, John, The Worm and the Star (London: Vintage, 2001)

Gaffney, David, Sawn-Off Tales (Cambridge: Salt, 2006)

Gaffney, David, Aromabingo (Cambridge: Salt, 2009)

Gaffney, David, The Half-Life of Songs (Cambridge: Salt, 2010)

Gebbie, Vanessa, Words from a Glass Bubble (Cambridge: Salt, 2008)

Gebbie, Vanessa, Storm Warning: Echoes of Conflict (Cambridge: Salt, 2010)

Gebbie, Vanessa (ed.), Short Circuit: A Guide to the Art of the Short Story (London: Salt, 2009)

Gingher, Marianne (ed.), Long Story Short: Flash Fiction by Sixty-Five of North Carolina’s Finest Writers (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009)

Golaski, Adam, Color Plates (Brookline, Massachusetts: Rose Metal Press, 2010)

Gonzalez, Ray, The Religion of Hands: Prose Poems and Flash Fictions (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2005)

Goodman, Roger (ed.), 75 Short Masterpieces: Stories from the World’s Literature (London: Bantam, 2005)

Gordon, Karen Elizabeth, The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales (Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 1996)

Guy, Molly, Reading Between the Lines (Port Adelaide: Ginninderra Press, 2009)

Gwyn, Richard, Walking on Bones (Cardiff: Parthian, 2003)

Hamilton, Mary, We Know What We Are (Brookline, Massachusetts: Rose Metal Press, 2010)

Haney, John B., Flash Fiction Plus: For Reading on the Go (New York: iUniverse, 2007)

Harwood, Lee, Dream Quilt: 30 Assorted Stories (Lenton, Nottingham: Slow Dancer Press, 1985)

Hempel, Amy, The Dog of the Marriage: The Collected Short Stories (London: Quercus, 2009)

Hershman, Tania, The White Road and Other Stories (Cambridge: Salt, 2008)

Horwitz, Allan Kolski, Out of the Wreckage (Braamfontein, Johannesburg: Botsotso, 2007)

Howe, Irving, and Ilana Wiener Howe (eds), Short Shorts: An Anthology of the Shortest Stories (New York: Bantam, 1983)

Howitt, Holly, Dinner Time (Blaenau Ffestiniog: Cinnamon Press, 2008)

Jobson, Liesl, 100 Papers: A Collection of Prose Poems and Flash Fiction (Braamfontein, Johannesburg: Botsotso, 2008)

Kawabata, Yasunari, The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories, trans. J. Martin Holman (Washington, DC: Counterpoint, 1998)

Kawabata, Yasunari, Palm-of-the-Hand Stories, trans. Lane Dunlop and J. Martin Holman (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006)

Kelman, James, If It Is Your Life (London: Hamish Hamilton, 2010)

Keret, Etgar, Four Stories (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2010)

Keret, Etgar, The Girl on the Fridge, trans. Miriam Shlesinger and Sondra Silverston (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008)

Keret, Etgar, Missing Kissinger (London: Vintage, 2008)

Keret, Etgar, The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God and Other Stories, trans. Miriam Shlesinger, Dalya Bilu, Margaret Weinberger Rotman, Anthony Berris and Dan Ofri (New Milford, CT: The Toby Press, 2005)

Keret, Etgar, The Nimrod Flip-Out, trans. Miriam Shlesinger and Sondra Silverston (London: Vintage, 2006)

Lennon, J. Robert, Pieces for the Left Hand: 100 Anecdotes (London: Granta, 2005)

Madden, Matt, 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style (London: Jonathan Cape, 2006)

Manguso, Sarah, Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape (San Francisco: McSweeney’s, 2007)

Masih, Tara L. (ed.), The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction (Brookline, Massachusetts: Rose Metal Press, 2009)

Michelle, Louise, Fifty-One Flash Fiction Stories (Charlestown, South Carolina: Booksurge, 2009)

Moolman, Kobus, Separating the Seas (Piertermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2007)

Moore, Dinty W. (ed.), Sudden Stories: The Mammoth Book of Miniscule Fiction (DuBois, PA: Mammoth, 2003)

Moss, Steve (ed.), The World’s Shortest Stories (Philadelphia: Running Press, 1999)

Moss, Steve, and John M. Daniel (eds), The World’s Shortest Stories of Love and Death (Philadelphia: Running Press, 1999)

Mu, Aili, Julie Chiu and Howard Goldblatt (ed. and trans.), Loud Sparrows: Contemporary Chinese Short-Shorts (New York: Columba University Press, 2006)

Mukherjee, Wanda Wade (ed.), Blink: Flash Fiction Before You Can Bat an Eye (Wake Forest, NC: Paper Journey Press, 2006)

Mukherjee, Wanda Wade, and Sharlene Baker (eds), Women Behaving Badly: Feisty Flash Fiction Stories (Durham, NC: Paper Journey Press, 2004)

[No author], How to Write Flash Fiction (np: Quick Easy Guides, 2008)

[No editor], Ada and More Nano-Fiction (Abercynon: Leaf, 2009)

[No editor], Derek and More Micro-Fiction (Abercynon: Leaf, 2007)

[No editor], Discovering a Comet and More Micro-Fiction (Abercynon: Leaf, 2008)

[No editor], From the Left and More Micro-Fiction (Abercynon: Leaf, 2010)

Oblonsky, Jerry, Short Shorts: Tales from the World Series to a Rest Home in Australia and Others (Parker, Colorado: Outskirts Press, 2005)

Painter, Pamela, Getting to Know the Weather (Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 2008)

Paley, Grace, The Collected Stories (London: Virago, 1999)

Perring, Nik, Not So Perfect: Stories (London: Roastbooks, 2010)

Qi, Shouhua (ed., trans), The Pearl Jacket and Other Stories: Flash Fiction from Contemporary China (Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press, 2008)

Queneau, Raymond, Exercises in Style, trans. Barbara Wright (London: John Calder, 1979)

Raven, Paul Graham (ed.), Illuminations: The Friday Flash Fiction Anthology (St Albans: Odd Two Out, 2008)

Reeves, Craig, Flash Fiction (New York: Vantage Press, 2005)

Reeves, Craig, Flash Fiction II (New York: Vantage Press, 2008)

Rhodes, Dan, Anthropology and a Hundred Other Stories (London: Canongate, 2005)

Rogers, Bruce Holland, Thirteen Ways to Water and Other Stories (Wilsonville, Oregon: Wheatland Press, 2004)

Rogers, Bruce Holland, Wind Over Heaven and Other Dark Tales (Berkeley Heights, New Jersey: Wildside Press, 2000)

Rourke, Lee, A Brief History of Fables: From Aesop to Flash Fiction (London: Hesperus Press, 2011)

Seltzer, Gemma, Speak to Strangers (London: Penned in the Margins, 2011)

Shapard, Robert, Motel and Other Stories (Ridgway, Colorado: Predator Press, 2005)

Shapard, Robert, and James Thomas (eds), Sudden Fiction: American Short-Short Stories (New York: Gibbes M. Smith, 1986)

Shapard, Robert, and James Thomas (eds), Sudden Fiction International: 60 Short-Short Stories (New York: Norton, 1989)

Shapard, Robert, and James Thomas (eds), Sudden Fiction (Continued): 60 New Short-Short Stories (New York: Norton, 1996)

Shapard, Robert, and James Thomas (eds), New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories from America and Beyond (New York: Norton, 2007)

Shapard, Robert, James Thomas, and Ray Gonzalez (eds), Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories from the United States and Latin America (New York: Norton, 2010)

Shua, Ana Maria, Quick Fix: Sudden Fiction, trans. Rhonda Dahl Buchanan (Buffalo, NY: White Pine, 2008)

Shua, Ana Maria, Microfictions, trans. Steven J. Stewart (Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2009)

Sole, Kelwyn, Land Dreaming: Prose Poems (Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2006)

Stanbrough, Harvey, Writing Realistic Dialogue and Flash Fiction: A Thorough Primer for Writers of Fiction and Essays (Albuquerque, New Mexico: Central Avenue Press, 2007)

Stern, Jerome (ed.), Micro Fiction: An Anthology of Really Short Stories (New York: Norton, 1996)

Swartwood, Robert (ed.), Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer (New York: Norton, 2010)

Swenson, Jack, The Night Heron’s Scream: Flash Fiction (New York: iUniverse, 2007)

Thomas, James, Denise Thomas, and Tom Hazuka (eds), Flash Fiction: 72 Very Short Stories (New York: Norton, 1992)

Thomas, James, and Robert Shapard (eds), Flash Fiction Forward: 80 Very Short Stories (New York: Norton, 2006)

Unferth, Deb Olin, Minor Robberies (San Francisco: McSweeney’s, 2007)

Van Cleave, Ryan G., and Todd James Pierce (eds), Behind the Short Story: From First to Final Draft (New York: Pearson Longman, 2007)

Walser, Robert, Microscripts, trans. Susan Bernofsky (New York: New Directions/Christine Burgin, 2010)

Wild, Peter (ed.), The Flash (London: Social Disease, 2007)

Wilson, Michael, Flash Writing: How to Write, Revise and Publish Stories Less Than 1,000 Words Long (College Station, Texas: Virtualbookworm.com Publishing, 2004)

Wood, William Ransom (ed.), Short Short Stories (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1951)

Worman, Jeremy, Fragmented (Blaenau Ffestiniog: Cinnamon Press, 2011)

Yourgrau, Barry, A Man Jumps Out of an Airplane: Stories (New York: Arcade, 1999)

Yourgrau, Barry, Wearing Dad’s Head: Stories (New York: Arcade, 1999)

Yourgrau, Barry, Nastybook (New York: HarperCollins, 2005)

Zahava, Irene (ed.), Word of Mouth: 150 Short-Short Stories by 90 Women Writers (Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1990)

Zahava, Irene (ed.), Word of Mouth: Volume 2: Short-Short Stories By 100 Women Writers (Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1991)

Eclectic Flash

Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine

Leaf Writers’ Magazine

McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern

Quick Fiction

The Southeast Review

Vestal Review

Other Publications

Agee, Jonis, A .38 Special and a Broken Heart (Coffee House Press, 1995)

Bell, Matt, and Josh Maday, Dancing on Fly Ash: One Hundred Word Stories (Lulu.com, 2006)

Bengelsdorf, Tobias Amadon (ed.), The Fiction at Work Biannual Report (Green Lantern Press, 2010)

Bernhard, Thomas, The Voice Imitator: 104 Stories By Thomas Bernhard (University of Chicago Press, 1997)

Boston, Bruce, Flashing the Dark (Sam’s Dot Publishing, 2006)

Brown, Randall, Mad to Live (Flume Press, 2008)

Burch, Aaron, How to Predict the Weather (Keyhole Press, 2010)

Doran, Phil, Spaghetti Fiction (Garlic Press, 2007)

Frank, Thaisa, A Brief History of Camouflage (Black Sparrow Press, 1992)

Frank, Thaisa, Sleeping in Velvet (Black Sparrow Press, 1997)

Freele, Stefanie, Feeding Strays (Lost Horse Press, 2009)

Freese, A. Demott, Writing the Short, Short Story (A. D. Freese and Son, 1932)

Gager, Timothy, Treating A Sick Animal (Cervena Barva Press, 2009)

Graham, Barry (ed.), Dogzplot Flash Fiction Anthology (Dogzplot, 2008)

Graham, Barry (ed.), Dogzplot Flash Fiction Anthology (Dogzplot, 2009)

Graham, Barry (ed.), Dogzplot Flash Fiction Anthology (Dogzplot, 2010)

Graham, Barry (ed.), Dogzplot Flash Fiction Anthology (Dogzplot, 2011)

Heynen, Jim, The Man Who Kept Cigars In His Cap (Graywolf Press, 1979)

Heynen, Jim, The One-Room Schoolhouse (Vintage, 1994)

Heynen, Jim, You Know What Is Right (North Point Press, 1985)

Heynen, Jim, The Boy’s House: New and Selected Stories (Minnesota Historical Society Press,      2001)

James, Debbie (ed.), Burning Ambitions: The Anthology of Short-Shorts (Rush Hour Revisions, 1998)

Koch, Kenneth, Hotel Lambosa (Coffee House Press, 1993)

Lay, Graeme (ed.), 100 New Zealand Short Short Stories (Tandem Press, 1997)

Lay, Graeme (ed.), Another 100 New Zealand Short Stories (Tandem Press, 1998)

Lay, Graeme (ed.), The Third Century: New Zealand Short Short Stories (Tandem Press, 1999)

Lovelace, Sean, How Some People Like Their Eggs (Rose Metal Press, 2009)

Martin, Chelsea, Everything Was Fine Until Whatever (Future Tense, 2009)

Navoth, Ziv, Nonotales (Ziji, 2007)

[No editor], Imagine Coal and More Micro-Fiction (Leaf, 2008)

Oberfirst, Robert, Short-Short Stories (Bruce Humphries, 1948)

Oberfirst, Robert (ed.), Anthology of the Best Short Short Stories, 8 vols (1952-1960)

Orfanella, Lou, In a Flash: Twenty-One Short Short Stories (March Street Press, 2007)

Orfanella, Lou, Maybe Tomorrow: Flash Fiction (March Street Press, 2011)

Phillips, Jayne Anne, Black Tickets (Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1979)

Rae, Leila (ed.), Doorknobs and Bodypaint: Fantastic Flash Fiction (Pandemonium Press, 2008)

Reid, Mildred I., and Delmar E. Bordeaux (eds), Writers: Try Short Shorts! (Bellevue, 1947)

Silesky, Barry, One Thing That Can Save Us (Coffee House Press, 1994)

Stratford, Stephen (ed.), One Hundred New Zealand Short Short Stories 4 (Tandem Press, 2000)

Tate, James, Dreams of a Robot Dancing Bee: 44 Stories (Wave, 2008)

Tinker, H. P., The Swank Bisexual Wine Bar of Modernity (Social Disease Books, 2007)

Treat, Jessica, A Robber in the House (Coffee House Press, 1993)

Wilson, Robley (ed.), Four-Minute Fictions: 50 Short-Short Stories From the North American Review (Word Beat Press, 1987)

Woodman, Allen, The Shoebox of Desire and Other Tales (Swallow’s Tale Press, 1987)

Young, Joseph, Easter Rabbit (Publishing Genius Press, 2009)

Flash is grateful for the help of Robert Scotellaro.

Contact Address	Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine Department of English University of Chester Parkgate Road Chester CH1 4BJ UK
Email	flash.magazine@chester.ac.uk
ISSN	1756-5200
Editors	Dr Peter Blair       Dr Ashley Chantler