Description: The sixth collection of flash fictions from Meg Pokrass represents best in class of the short literary form.
Brief description: Meg Pokrass is the author of five previous flash fiction collections. Her work has been anthologized in two Norton anthologies including New Micro (W.W. Norton & Co., 2018), Best Small Fictions, 2018 and 2019, the Wigleaf Top 50, and has appeared in 350 literary magazines both online and in print. She currently serves as Flash Challenge Editor at Mslexia Magazine, Festival Curator for Flash Fiction Festival, U.K. (Bristol) Co-Editor of Best Microfiction 2019, and Founding/Managing Editor of New Flash Fiction Review. Her website is megpokrass.com/
Review Quotes:
"The stories of Meg Pokrass are like beautiful bruises. I read them and ache. Sparse, poetic, insightful, and always astonishing. This is writing that makes you feel alive." --Angela Readman, author of "Something Like Breathing"
"In the universe of Meg Pokrass's fictions, planets are gloriously misaligned, stars and suns trail love and desperate sadness, black holes serve up dogs, spiders, cats, and galaxies explode everything we thought we knew about the human heart. It is an ever-expanding universe. No other like it." --Pamela Painter, author of "Wouldn't You Like to Know"
"To enter the portals of Pokrassland is to go on a magical journey: here there are sex-charged buffalo men and melancholic women who fear six-foot spiders and fall in love with their therapists. It's a place where people make bald statements and odd connections, where there are strange animals, purple stars and 'a deep-ruby moon'. Unpredictable, funny and charming, the world Meg Pokrass builds in The Dog Seated Next to Me is a location readers will enter gladly and, mesmerised, they will most definitely want to stay."
--Nuala O'Connor, author of "Joyride to Jupiter" and "Becoming Belle"