Talia Carner, like her heroine Brooke Fielding, traveled to Moscow in the early days of that city’s emergence from decades of communism. She apparently went with the intention of training Russian entrepreneurial women in basic business practices, also as in Hotel Moscow. I hope like crazy she didn’t face all the same threats from Russian men, the Russian Parliament, and chauvinistic Russian attitudes as her heroine. For these threats and grave dangers fill Hotel Moscow from beginning to...
July 22, 2015
"Flash Fiction International"
Very Short Stories from Around the World Edited by James Thomas, Robert Shapard, Christopher Merrill Flash Fiction International contains 86 stories in 182 pages, an average of about 2¼ pages per story, and for me, that average feels a little high. This remarkable collection also has a section called “Flash Theory,” from which I will quote Lia Purpura: Why are miniature things so compelling? …The miniature is mysterious ….Miniatures encourage attention ….Miniatures are intimate...
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