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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
- 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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