Welcome to Litsy!

Flash is powerful stuff!
This isn't a book so much as a folder stuffed full of zip files. There are, inevitably, the clutch of heartless clever-clogs, look-at-me! stories included, but there are rather more that I finished in awed silence and with the desire for an immediate re-read. The best of them reverberate long after the book has been closed.

This marks the limit of my ability to focus this afternoon. I feel unusual after yesterday's covid jab.

(The centre was very well-organised but the sheer scale of the thing shook me, in a way that the statistics haven't.)

1. I chose my Litsy handle after “Rays of Someday Almost,” a flash fiction piece of mine about miscarriage that was published in The Pitkin Review 2013. I later included it in “Trail Ways Pilgrims: Stories.” It‘s one of the most personal pieces I‘ve written.
2. I am thankful my son is making good friends while we live abroad. 😄 And for books, of course! #ThankfulThursday

Today I chose a one minute story from the short story dispenser at Edmonton International Airport. It‘s a special Halloween edition, “My Friend Henry Banner” by Raphael Marchetti.

Short stories are a great way to get a quick introduction to an unfamiliar author. What's even better is flash fiction. From one paragraph to a couple of pages, these extremely short works offer quick tastes of authors from all over the world. Most are really compelling, really good.