A special treat tonight for fans of fiction. Very, very short fiction.
Rose Metal Press held their first annual short short chapbook contest--collections of very short stories, 1000 words or less. The top four entries then had their work published in a new volume: A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness. The unique short-short story form distills the complexities of life into the smallest fragments: a passing thought, a image, a overheard phrase. The best (and this collection is full of them) are powerful, intense and haunting, and they linger long after you've finished. Like a scent on the wind, it comes and goes and leaves you wondering why it seemed so familiar and real, if only for a moment. It leaves you with, well, a peculiar feeling of restlessness.
We're lucky enough to have Amy Clark here tonight for a reading from her work, Wanting, one of the four included in the new collection.
Amy L Clark is an assistant professor of college composition at Pine Manor College, where she is honored to teach all sorts of young women about reading and writing. She has had fiction published in literary journals including Juked, Quick Fiction, 42Opus and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and her work appears in the anthology Brevity and Echo. Amy is still hoping to become an astronaut when she grows up.
See you tonight.
Yours in Books,
Chris & Co.
Longfellow Books
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