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Responding to America's love affair with the short-short, editors Shapard and Thomas consulted nearly two-hundred magazines and chose the sixty stories, written in English or translated, that they considered best. Ranging across countries and cultures, the selection includes a number of new stories from the Pacific Rim Well-known writers William Maxwell, Margaret Atwood, Don DeLillo, Mark Richard join lesser-known writers Molly Giles, Andrew Lam, Judy Troy who will be (or should be) better known. Each story revels in its own element of surprise; each, whether traditional or experimental, proves that a tale told quickly offers pleasure long past its telling. Students and lovers of literature take note: this is serious writing that's fun to read "

Robert Shapard directed the University of Hawaii MFA program and now lives in Austin, Texas.

James Thomas, coeditor of all the Flash Fiction anthologies, lives in Xenia, Ohio.