1,000 Words New Year’s Arrival To Help Start Off 2021

So it goes, the year 2020 now a part of history, my reading of the current book (the hefty 25 GATES OF HELL, cf. December 9, et al.) only a few stories short of the end, what should arrive yesterday, New Year’s Day, but a ready replacement. The new book is WORTH 1,000 WORDS (see November 29, 18), a compilation of tales published via email in FLASH IN A FLASH, itself a running collection of (guess what?) flash fiction.

Edited by Jason Brick and Dani J. Caile, WORTH 1,000 WORDS contains 101 stories in all, each at or under 1000 words as the title implies. Subjects vary, from general fiction to various genres, including horror — in this case, e.g., my story, “The Third Prisoner,” originally published in LVWonline.org for November 2008 as well as several other places including Brazil (in Portuguese!) in I ANTOLOGIA LUSIADAS (as “O Terceiro Prisioneiro,” Ediciones Lusiadas, 2009). How’s that for a world traveler? A crime story too, “The Third Prisoner” concerns a man, originally from Haiti, about to be executed as a revolutionary, but with a surprise to spring with his demise.

Of the book as a whole (to quote the back cover), you’ll meet newly established authors, career tale spinners, and a few big names . . . all delivering great stories in small packages. These quick peeks into the minds of master fiction writers bring you everything from sweet romance to spine-tingling horror in just minutes of your time.

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