Genre: Horror/Flash
Fiction
Description:
This is the newest collection of Crane’s series of drabbles, which are
flash fiction stories of exactly 100 words. This volume focuses on stories from
the carnival. Also included are bonus drabbles and other flash fiction from
seven of Crane’s indie author peers: Daniel Pyle, M.P. McDonald, M.S. Verish,
J.L. Bryan, Robert J. Duperre, Daniel Arenson, and Jason Letts.
Author:
Michael Crane is a graduate in Fiction Writing from Columbia College
Chicago, his hometown school. In addition to the first three 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.
Appraisal:
Can I make this one-hundred words, like each drabble in this
collection? We’ll see. While I wish Crane would apply his demented mind to
something longer (a novel, or More Declined,
my title for the follow-up to his short story collection with tales of normal
people, down on their luck), his fans keep saying “more drabbles.” I see them
as bite-size stories. Crane’s typically end with a demented twist. Find out
what being a “mark” means and why a blowup doll is a bad date. Pyle’s bonus
story shows why you shouldn’t mess with the short guy. Yup, one-hundred words.
FYI:
Some adult language.
Added for
Reprise Review: Lessons IV
by Michael Crane was the winner in the Short Story Collections and
Anthologies for B&P 2013 Readers' Choice Awards. Original review ran April
24, 2012
Format/Typo
Issues:
No significant issues.
Rating:
***** Five Stars
Reviewed
by: BigAl
Approximate
word count: 4-5,000 words
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