Abruptions

Abruptions
Authors
Jack Matthews
Publisher
Personville Press
Tags
flash fiction
Date
2017
Size
2.79 MB
Lang
en
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"Matthews stories are like friends from small towns: They are honest, warm, occasionally lyrical and as strange and idiosyncratic as the rest of us."Arthur Sabatini (Philadelphia Inquirer)

During the last decade of his life, author Jack Matthews wrote a series of 1-2 page prose pieces (which he dubbed "Abruptions" or "very short stories that end abruptly").

Matthews had already published over 20 books of fiction with an astonishing variety of characters and plots. This last volume hints at a lot of characters and plots without trying to resolve them. Each abruption which rarely takes more than 5 minutes to read shed light on something unexpected, whether it be a characters view on life or the readers notions of how the world ought to work.

Many episodes read like contemporary fables or sketches of quirky people from small midwest towns. Two older women have a long-running feud about what flowers should go on the fence between...