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Micro fiction : an anthology of really short stories / edited by Jerome Stern.

LIBRA Rare PN6120.2 .M547 1996 Potok copy
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Stern, Jerome (Jerome H.), editor.
The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Flash fiction--Specimens.
Flash fiction.
Genre:
Flash fiction.
Short stories -- United States.
Specimens.
Penn Provenance:
Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)
Physical Description:
141 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 17 cm
Edition:
[First edition].
Place of Publication:
New York ; London : W. W. Norton & Company, [1996]
Contents:
The poet's husband / Molly Giles
The cough / Harry Humes
Daydream / Roberta Allen
Wrong channel / Roberto Fernandez
Harmony / Joy Williams
20/20 / Linda Brewer
Your fears are justified / Rick DeMarinis
At the point / Beauvais McCaddon
The halo / Michael McFee
Mockingbird / Laurie Berry
Changing the channel / E. Ethelbert Miller
Wanting to fly / Stephen Dunning
Eclipsed / Robert Shuster
The new year / Pamela Painter
Survivors / Kim Addonizio
Anti-Cain / Virgil Suarez
Painted devils / Fred Chappell
Honeycomb / Natalia Rachel Singer
Baby, baby, baby / François Camoin
An old story / James Kelman
Conception / Tom Fleming
All this / Joanne Avallon
Stone belly girl / Jamie Granger
Worry / Ron Wallace
You can't see dogs on the radio / Linda Wendling
The true story of Mr. and Mrs. Wong / Marilyn Chin
Flu / Stuart Dybek
The bridge / Russell Edson
Kennedy in the barrio / Judith Ortiz Cofer
Grief / Ron Carlson
Mount Olive / Monifa A. Love
Hurray for Hollywood / George Garrett
This is how I remember it / Betsy Kemper
November / Ursula Hegi
Carpathia / Jesse Lee Kercheval
Chickens / Elaine Magarrell
The mayor of the sister city speaks to the chamber of commerce in Klamath Falls, Oregon, on a night in December in 1976 / Michael Martone
Confirmation names / Mariette Lippo
Hostess ; Housewife / Amy Hempel
Land's end / Antonya Nelson
Last supper in the Cabinet Mountains / David Bottoms
Strongman / Wendy White-Ring
Diverging paths and all that / Maryanne O'Hara
A gentleman's C / Padgett Powell
Of exposure / John Holman
Tea leaves / Janet Burroway
We eat our peas for the souls in Purgatory / Annette McPeters
Waiting / Peggy McNally
But what was her name? / Dawn Raffel
Guadalupe in the Promised Land / Sam Shepard
Morning news / Jerome Stern
Molibi / Leith Hancock
Wallet / Allen Woodman.
Notes:
Collection of short-short stories, from contest winners and selected finalists for the annual World's Best Short Short Story Contest in addition to Micro comissioned by the editor.
Local Notes:
Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok Teaching Copy Villanova".
Potok Collection copy has underlines and marginal marks.
ISBN:
0393039684
9780393039689
0393314324
9780393314328
OCLC:
33440078

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