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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B0CDZRGT1M
|title=Super Short Stories: Flash Fiction
|author=Mark C Wallfisch
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=''Got a minute to be amused, entertained, or challenged?''
''These 100 stories are super short. None is more than 300 words. You can read one in a flash.''
''Some are funny. Some are poignant. All are short.''
Question: how do you review flash fiction? How do you give a flavour of a fully rounded little story if that story is told in fewer than three hundred words? Or do you try to draw out themes from all the flash fictions in a book of them? I don't know! Perhaps we could start by explaining that there really isn't a fixed definition of flash fiction but that for this collection, author Mark C Wallfisch has gone for a three hundred word limit. That's about a single page in your average paperback.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1732898766
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. She, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she was just with her husband, Walter. It turns out that not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary's hospital. That's where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are in the midst of a joyful, monied group of friends and whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. Josie, on the other hand, holds her handbag close to her tummy and you get the sense that Walter's not too happy. He's not used to spending this much money on a meal - but it is Josie's birthday after all.
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