Genre: Flash Fiction/Horror
Approximate word count: 3,500-4,000 words
Availability
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Author:
Michael Crane is a graduate in Fiction Writing from Columbia College Chicago, his hometown school. Crane has an addiction to Red Bull and a pet chinchilla that is reputed to be bloodthirsty. In addition to the first two Lessons volumes, Crane has a short story collection, In Decline, and a novelette, A Gnome Problem, available for your Kindle. He has also been featured in many short story anthologies. On rare occasions, Crane will post on his blog.
Description:
In his newest collection of drabbles, flash fiction pieces of exactly 100 words, Crane’s theme is playtime, with deranged toys figuring in many of the stories.
Appraisal:
In this volume, Crane continues his popular series of drabbles – most horror, many darkly comedic. Telling a story in one-hundred words, start to finish, is story writing at its most extreme. Crane gives us thirty, each well done – spare of prose, simple of plot, yet complete. Who’d have guessed toys were so evil? Perfect to read when you have a spare minute, and no more.
As a bonus, a flash fiction piece from each of five Indie author peers is included. Daniel Arenson, Imogen Rose, Jason Anderson, Sean Sweeney, and David Dalglish each contributed.
Yes, this review is one-hundred words.
FYI:
Some adult language.
Format/Typo Issues:
No significant issues.
Rating: **** Four stars
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