They Could No Longer Contain Themselves: A Collection of Five Flash Chapbooks

Elizabeth J Colen (Western Washington University),John Jodzio,Tim Jones-Yelvington,Sean Lovelace,Mary Miller

Format
Paperback
Publisher
Rose Metal Press
Country
United States
Published
17 May 2011
Pages
248
ISBN
9780984616619

They Could No Longer Contain Themselves: A Collection of Five Flash Chapbooks

Elizabeth J Colen (Western Washington University),John Jodzio,Tim Jones-Yelvington,Sean Lovelace,Mary Miller

Fiction. THEY COULD NO LONGER CONTAIN THEMSELVES contains but just barely five chapbooks of flash fiction, including the winner of the third annual Rose Metal Press short short chapbook contest, and four of the finalists from the fourth. Dropped toddlers, attempted drownings, juvenile promiscuity, road trips, and inappropriate therapy sessions compose the multi-voiced family portrait in Dear Mother Monster, Dear Daughter Mistake by Elizabeth J. Colen. Yoga stalkers, guns and gold, babies with iron stomachs, drunkards with t-shirt cannons, and warlocks are the stuff of Do Not Touch Me Not Now Not Ever by John Jodzio. Dominatrixes and fetishists, face paint and goo, fierce parental love and perverse longings cohabitate in Evan’s House and the Other Boys Who Live There by Tim Jones-Yelvington. Leukemia, meteorites, Wal-Mart, bocce ball, Charlie Brown’s clinical depression, the language of talking crows and of Che Guevara’s omelets fill the eggs in How Some People Like Their Eggs by Sean Lovelace. And smallstories about pretty girls who sit quietly and behave themselves (or not) populate the pages of Paper and Tassels by Mary Miller.

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