Coffee House Lies: 100 Cups of Flash Fiction

Officially peculiar set of stories.And peculiar in a good sense. Carly Berg is one queer talent in the literature arena.Coffee House Lies is a compilation of 100 bursts of imaginations across the skies of the minds.Flash Fiction indeed.The stories are strange, not normal and extraordinary. I've read dozens of short story anthologies this year.And by far this is the most different one!They range from being bizarre to that of a normal routine human mind to that of a remarkable streak of literature

Flash fiction – short, concise stories as little as one page, and rarely more than four or five – is a form that has become newly popular with digital publishing. Carly Berg must be one its best exponents. She’s written a guidebook called Writing Flash Fiction that contains some excellent advice on writing in general. After reading it, I wanted to see whether she was any good herself. Having now read Coffee House Lies, I can report that she is, very. These stories all, in some way, reflect the h

This book is a gem! Delightful, insightful, thought provoking, and hilarious. Flash fiction isn't for everyone, but if you like short short stories, you won't be disappointed. Many of the stories have a touch of the surreal. A few of my favorites:In The Shirt Off His Back, the work shirt of a woman's ex-husband returns home in human form and they get along much better that way.In Bringing Back Beulah, a group of little girls in the 1970's have a séance to bring back a departed great aunt, and ar