The Best Small Fictions 2015 Quotes

“Marco’s hands are slender, quick and brutal. They are the hands of a man who shapes air. Together”
― Robert Olen Butler, The Best Small Fictions 2015

“IV is the quickest hangover cure on the planet. Trust me. If you ever feel like you’re dying from a hangover, contact a nurse you know. A medic. An EMT. Anyone who can hook you up with some intravenous cleansing. You feel like a new man. A new man ready to haul around drunks all night.”
― Robert Olen Butler, The Best Small Fictions 2015

“Alcoholics bleed a lot. Because they hit their heads a lot.”
― Robert Olen Butler, The Best Small Fictions 2015

“The man gave me a stack of papers and said that one of the most painful things about death was the paperwork. I”
― Robert Olen Butler, The Best Small Fictions 2015

“The man placed my mother on the counter. I’d selected an urn that could easily be confused for a Chinese vase, but I no longer appreciated that. When I saw it now I thought, This thing is so ugly, and if I screw off the top I will hear my mother scream.”
― Robert Olen Butler, The Best Small Fictions 2015

“The different pamphlets that lined the coffee table all had clouds on their covers. I shuffled them, then shuffled them again, but the weather wouldn’t change.”
― Robert Olen Butler, The Best Small Fictions 2015