Short Fiction

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Peter Altenberg (Austria) Two short stories Oskar Back (USA) The Best Minds of My G-g-g-g-generation: An Evening with Gregory Corso and Allen Ginsberg Johannes Beilharz (Germany) Caught in conversation Lemuel Potter, distant cousin - the story of »Hairy« Potter The hexagon - a tale of the future Green clear balls - a surreal story Relation - an almost real borrowed story X. - sort of a spy story parody On the train - a more or less philosophical story Somewhere near Teec Nos Pos Caught in conversation NEW The red desert NEW Bio Leonard Blumfeld Blumfeld interviewed by Psychotic News Cipation Donnie and Geronimo, youthful warriors Forbidden   In a dark monster of a building - a flash story Memoir of a reading arranged by a cowbird My nights without you   Mysterious parallel bounce Pigeon TV She's been misunderstood So grave The master of archideas Transformation Try this – a sensually tantalizing flash love story   Unwritten love letter   Up the creek without a paddle Zapping the remote control - historical flashes Richard Brautigan Pounding at the gates of American literature - excerpt Edmund Cardoni (USA) Bryon - a short prose piece Normandi Ellis (USA) The Egyptian Book of the Dead - excerpts from Normandi Ellis' translation Manfred Kyber (Germany) His Great Moment - a short story Bio Niebla A dream of fire and air An interpretation A trip to Ruby City A visit to the novelty store Dramatic relationship Evasions Far from Darfur Hell hath no fury   Jeweled letter   Latter-day variant of an older story Leonine Ms. Literate speaks My kind of girl (a not so nice story) Oh wonder   Poses at Hopi Point   She walked with a mysterious bounce (an abbreviated Iliad) Spidery webs The end of a flight   Travelers in Atlantis - a glimpse What to do? White chamber (a ghost story)   Who else I might have been	Fernando Sorrentino There's a Man in the Habit of Hitting Me on the Head with an Umbrella Surendra Sparsh He acted like God come down to earth - a flash story A desert dream James Steerforth A dark flight A difficult kind of dance   A few seconds in the mind of Cinzia A fun-packed evening with Claude A mere dalliance A mother's words for her 388 year-old son An intergalactic messenger in search of Camelot Approximately seven minutes about men and women   Back home Bear   Better late than never?   Bodo Spangles caught in the tangles of bureaucracy in 2509 Complaint of Vilemir Putanin, seasoned dictator and cleptocrat NEW Expropriation Ferociously unfounded Fleeting gifts Hiatus Holly Brown's lonely life   House warming Identification of objects in historical grave treasure near end Inappropriate   It is written that Jolt, Ribbon and Zeal (or: The rules of cohabitation) Love, at long last, visits two lonely hearts Love, lust and madness at Twilight Manor Katherine and I used to be lovers Letter to Crazy Mama from her son Luke C. Whead Maligned Mirror to the sky Mixed drinks - a flash story Mysterious parallel bounce Natalie Spacey must go shopping Oh what to do... One visit for every key Out in space in some future Out of this world Parting shot Persistent callous interference Sadness and happiness   Seriously, Dave – a borrowed dialog Stripease NEW The other inhabitants move in The picture of my heart The significance of things and events The wishbone Tell me about something that will stay forever   This place To avoid or not to avoid   Twilight in the garden   You can be damn sure NEW Robert Steiner My Asian Frontier - poetic prose Elizabeth Sugrue My birthday party - an ultrashort story Vivek Tandon (India) Maddened by a Thread - excerpt from a novella
	Book recommendation Best of Meme Among the authors of the poems and flash stories assembled in this anthology are James Steerforth, Leonard Blumfeld, Niebla, Surendra Sparsh, Iself and Felix Morgenstern. These miniatures, which range from humorous to deadpan, satirical to whimsical and spiritual to only beautiful,  are the result of the author's participation in various so-called memes – also referred to as writing or art prompts – in the English-language literary and art blog world in 2007 and 2008. 2008, paperback, 52 pages, $8.95 / £4.50 / €7.99.  ISBN: 978-1-6048-1364-7.  Can be ordered directly from Wordclay, the publisher, or from any bookstore or online bookstore, e.g. Amazon US, Amazon UK, Amazon Germany.
Links Novel endings - a series at James Steerforth's blog Six sentences - what can you say in six sentences? Lyrics - an eclectic collection of song lyrics NEW

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