The Grisly Effects of Green

And Nineteen Other Flash Fiction Stories

By: John Corral

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

For those who already love flash fiction —exceptionally short stories— this book offers you another opportunity to indulge in your passion. For those just now discovering flash fiction, this book introduces you to a true phenomenon in recent fiction trends. Stories have been growing shorter and shorter, for decades breaking down the conventions of longer fiction. Why? Because flash fiction captures what longer forms can’t. So what exactly does flash fiction do, or capture? As one writer noted, flash fiction can bring you awareness of a point faster and more deeply felt, then, foregoing any novelistic wind-down, leave you there suspended in that wonderful moment of recognition. It’s been said that flash fiction can do in a page what a novel does in two hundred; and, perhaps more humbly, that flash fiction is as intense as poetry, because readers who like to skip can’t skip in a one-page story. This collection provides the full span of this new phenomenon. The length of the entries ranges from one paragraph to nine pages, and includes several poems. They also vary in genre, from humor to mystery, romance to the macabre. And they can go deep; effectively changing you almost before you know it.