Diane Thomas's Reviews > The Best Small Fictions 2015

Guest editor Robert Olen Butler and series editor Tara Masih's Best Small Fictions 2015 is a delightful and important anthology.

For those who know or write flash fiction, those startling and often delightful little stories that range in size from 140-character Tweets to two- or three-page stories edging up to 1,000 words, this book is a must-have. Those unfamiliar with the form will find themselves enlarged and most likely enthralled by it. Some of the stories, like Dan Gilmore's "Happiest Black White Man Alive, have small but classic story arcs. Others, many others, nestle stylistically right next to prose poems.

The stories of "Best Small Fictions 2015" are wonderful to read aloud, which is how my spouse and I enjoyed them, or to read in one gulp, or to read singly as refreshments to one's days. But be ye warned, they're as addictive as a bag of fresh, crisp potato chips. Bet you can't read just one.