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“The people in these stories need Meg Pokrass. Their lives are tough but her imagination is the fire-lasso that can save them, save us.” –Bob Hicok, author of Elegy Owed and Sex & LoveA sixteen-year-old transplanted Pennsylvanian navigates sunburn and heartbreak in equal measure while falling in love with a very tan ghost. A girl with drunk scribbles on her shoes searches for fragments of an old flame inside the boy at the mall food court. And...

In Disappearing Debutantes, disappearing and ever present "female beginners" come-of-age in fantasy and reality. As children, girls, teens, "new adults, " middle-aged women, and old women, they keep having their debuts and going unnoticed. Erased by gender, time, age, and those they most want to see them, neglected females become strange in hopes of being loved, being listened to, being understood, and being seen. Though society has no intere...

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The House of Grana Padano is a collection of tragi-comic, fabulist microfiction by two modern masters of the form, each story a world unto itself.

The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer. Co-edited by Meg Pokrass and Gary Fincke, the anthology features Amber Sparks serving as final judge.

Meg Pokrass has written an exquisite collection of linked stories. As I read Spinning to Mars I felt plunged, soaked, immersed-however you want to get down into a life both deep and wide. This book will spin you off to Mars with its exacting language and biting insight. Here is the kind of compressed writing that I long for and rarely find.¿Meg Pokrass is the author of seven flash fiction collections, including "Damn Sure Right" (Press 53, 201...

A funny/sad portrait of teenage blues and of a small, transplanted family of non-conformists.

The Best Microfiction series provides recognition for outstanding stories of 400 words or fewer. Co-edited by Meg Pokrass, and Gary Fincke, this edition features acclaimed author Michael Martone serving as final judge.

The sixth collection of flash fictions from Meg Pokrass represents best in class of the short literary form.

Damn Sure Right, the "wonderful, dark, unforgiving" (Frederick Barthelme) debut by Meg Pokrass, "conveys entire worlds that are touching, haunting, funny, moving, and strange in the most beautiful ways" (Jessica Anya Blau). "The brew master of flash" (Sean Lovelace), Pokrass writes "like a brain looking for a body" (Frederick Barthelme), making her the "new monarch of the delightful and enigmatic tiny kingdom of mirco- and flash fiction" (Brad...

Meg Pokrass is the author of "Damn Sure Right" (Press 53, 2011), "My Very End of the Universe, Five Mini-Novellas-in-Flash and a Study of the Form" (Rose Metal Press, 2014) and "Bird Envy" (Harvard Bookstore bestseller). Her stories have appeared in more than 200 literary magazines and anthologies, including McSweeney's Internet Tendency, PANK, Green Mountains Review, Five Points, and numerous anthologies, including Flash Fiction International...

Funny, hungry, brave, strange, sexy, and edgy collection of quirky gem-like stories by a master of the flash fiction form.